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VOL XXIV NO. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1994
395 NINTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
Surgeon general speaks out!
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders charms the audience just prior to her January 27 talk at
SF Community College. For more on the always candid surgeon general, see stories on page
21. (Photo: Rick Gerharter)
LAVA Moves Inexorably Forward
by Judi Parks
Bay Area Career Women
president Laurel Donoho has
announced that tickets are
now available for the upcom¬
ing “Lesbians of Achieve¬
ment, Vision, and Action”
awards, which will be pre¬
sented at their second annual
benefit dinner on Saturday,
April 2. The prestigious event
will be held at the Westin St.
Francis Hotel at Union
Square to honor seven les¬
bians who have, through their
actions, achievement, or work,
created lesbian visibility.
One of the most visible les¬
bians of all, nationally known
author, sex educator, and
comedienne Joann Loulan
will serve as mistress of cere¬
monies. Loulan, author of
The Lesbian Erotic Dance:
Butch, Femme and Other
Rhythms; Lesbian Passion:
Lo Femme and Other
Rhythms; Lesbian Passion:
Loving Ourselves and Each
Other; Lesbian Sex; and Pe-
(Continued or) page 11)
A Real Philadelphia Story
Gay Lawyer with AIDS seesJustice too Late
by Wayne Hoffman
Tom Hanks may have won
a Golden Globe for his por¬
trayal of a lawyer with AIDS
in Philadelphia, but the
award that matters more
went to Geoffrey Bowers in
New York. Bowers recently
won a record settlement
against one of the country’s
leading law firms, claiming
the firm fired him because he
had AIDS.
The New York State Divi¬
sion of Human Rights last
month awarded $500,000 in
mental anguish damages, plus
back pay, to be paid by Bow¬
ers’s former employer, the
law firm of Btfker & McKen¬
zie. Bowers worked as an im¬
migration lawyer for the Man¬
hattan branch of the firm un¬
til 1986. At that time, Bowers
developed visible Kaposi’s
Sarcoma due to AIDS, and
was dismissed despite praise¬
worthy job performance.
Bowers testified that aside
from causing obvious finan¬
cial straits, his dismissal had
devastated him emotionally.
“I was hurt, I was upset, I
was angry,” he said. “In light
of the fact that I was dealing
with my AIDS and my Ka¬
posi’s Sarcoma, I merely felt
as though they had taken the
last thing in the world that
meant anything to me.”
Unfortunately, Bowers did
not survive to see his victory.
He died in 1987. The award
will go to his mother, living
in Massachusetts.
Daniel Felber of Balsam &
Felber was a long-time per¬
sonal friend of Bowers, and
represented Bowers in the
case. “I think the decision is
wonderful,” Felber says. “I
feel my client, and now his
estate, is completely vindicat¬
ed and more importantly, Ge¬
offrey did not spend the last
months of his life for nothing.
He fought the good fight, and
this is a validation of it.”
The figure for damages
seems low compared to more
publicized cases, the fictional
Philadelphia case included.
But the Division of Human
Rights is not authorized to
grant punitive damages,
which can add millions of dol¬
lars to court settlements.
Balsam & Felber chose to
prosecute the case through
the Division rather than the
courts, despite the much low¬
er potential award. Felber ex¬
plains that in 1986, the federal
courts did not yet classify
AIDS as a disability; that clas¬
sification came in 1990 with
the Americans with Disabili¬
ties Act. State courts were an¬
other option that would have
allowed higher damages, but
their process is even slower
than the Division of Human
Rights, and Bowers was in
extremely poor health.
Bowers’s lawyers decided
to forego the punitive dam¬
ages, in order to speed the
hearings and allow their
client to testify himself while
he was still able. This choice
turned out to be a wise one in
retrospect; Bowers testified in
July, 1987, and died eight
weeks later. In a courtroom
case, he likely would have
died before testifying.
Besides, the $500,000 in
mental anguish damages is a
record for the Division, no
small prize. “It is the highest
award for mental anguish and
pain and suffering ever
awarded by the State Divi¬
sion of Human Rights in its
history, and that is very pleas¬
ing to us,” says Felber. “For
the forum that we chose and
for the reasons that we chose,
we are very pleased with the
result. In hindsight, had we
gone to a different forum, we
may not have won.”
Obviously, not everyone is
pleased with the outcome of
(Continued on page 18)
Inside
Bartalk.
. . . 44 Open Forum.
... .6
Calendar.
10
GLAAD .
. 25 OutThere.
.34
Health & Community
. . 24 People/Personals .
.52
Letters .
... .7 Queer Watch.
.26
Mr. Marcus .......
. . . 48 Sports & Fitness . . .
. . .42
Obituaries.
.22 Wayne Friday.
... .9
Th eBay Area Reporter Celebrates Black History Month
'As One Black Gay Man../
by Tony Glover, The Brothers Network
“And those who make out of the holocaust of their exis¬
tence, more than a self-made tomb, shall be known as sur¬
vivors.”
— Author unknown
“For years now we have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in
the ear of every black person with piercing familiarity. Per¬
haps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts
of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But... when you are forever fight¬
ing a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness ’ — then you will under¬
stand why we find it difficult to wait.”
“I might not get there with you, but I want you to know
tonight, that we as a people will get to the promised land.”
“You are as good as anyone.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a black man, I
no longer will wait
for what should
have been provided
years ago. Years be¬
fore Craig died.
Years before James
died. Before Arielle,
Aunt Jenny, and Un¬
cle Vincent died.
Before mommy dies.
From AIDS.
As a gay man I
must hope against
hope that the “she-
he” some of us call
God will show us
how those labeled
sexual outcasts will
be delivered to the
promised land.
As a black gay
man, I find myself
repeating Dr. King’s
words every day: “I
am as good as any- Tony Glover, director of the Brothers Net-
one”... “I am as good work, an SF HIV/AIDS service agency,
as anyone...” “1
am...” “ As good...” “As good as I am.”
Everyday I reaffirm my grandmother’s advice to me that I
have a right to be here as I am. Grandma Pearline loves her
black gay grandson. She wouldn’t trade me for the world. One
day, to reaffirm her love for me, she told me, “Don’t listen to
what the anti-gay people say, because Tony, we all got a right
to be here.”
Some days I think, all at once, of Craig, Arielle, James, Jen¬
ny, and Vincent. On these days, with ill-ease, I project the
death of my mother and, in so doing, lose control of my emo¬
tions.
I am overwhelmed, for I am convinced that their deaths
were not meant to be. We should not, 14 years into this AIDS
pandemic, find ourselves counting dead so many black souls.
No one should turn away from this Godawful truth: for many
— regardless of race, color or creed — AIDS will continue to be
the genocide that did not have to be.
But, the U.S. government predicts by the year 2000 it will
be African-Americans who are the majority decimated by
AIDS. So for today, I speak mostly of the souls of black folk.
Webster’s dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate and
systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.”
Ignorant to history, some people say black folk use the word
“genocide” too loosely. If they only knew how our history is
filled with massacres deliberately borne of systemic racism —
massacres unrestricted by timelines. The slave trade and lynch-
ings and black infant mortality define more precisely our mas¬
sacres.
Spread throughout history, with its means changing with
time, the goal of destroying a people can escape those who live
only in their moment with no recollection of mine. However,
I, as a black person, am deeply aware that oppressive racist
systems and bigoted de-liberators seek to destroy, instead of
build, black bodies, black spirits, black souls, and black minds.
I, a black gay man, am deeply aware of heterosexist systems
in all ethnic communities, including my own. I know black het¬
erosexists deliberate with ease homo-bi-trans-sexual destruction
by a disease which to many — black, brown, red, yellow, or
white — refuse to claim as their own.
I will speak of the genocide. I name it without hesitation. I
will call out the white racist and heterosexists (of all colors,
races, and creeds) destined to be recorded by time as destroy¬
ing— with deliberate speed, deafening silence and debilitating
inaction on AIDS — the lives of black gay/bi/trans-sexual men.
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(Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland)
Merchants, Cops, Others,
Meet in Wake of Castro Homicide
by Dennis Conkin
Merchants and other mem¬
bers of local gay and neigh¬
borhood business groups met
last week, in the wake of the
murder of a Castro area store
clerk, to talk about crime in
the Castro District.
The meetings followed the
Wednesday, January 26 murder
of Steve Oh, 27, a clerk at
KD’s Grog and Grocery on
the corner of 17th and Castro
streets. Oh was shot several
times with a large caliber
weapon during an armed rob¬
bery at the store, according to
San Francisco Police Depart¬
ment homicide inspectors.
Oh is survived by his wife
and daughter.
Crime in the Castro is not
increasing, says officer Ray
Benson, a Mission station cop,
but is becoming increasingly
violent.
“We see the same num¬
bers, but it’s becoming more
violent,” Benson told the Bay
Area Reporter. “These are
desperate times for desperate
people. Our folks need to be
really aware when they are
on the street and pay atten¬
tion to what’s going on.
In January, Mission Station
responded to at least 20 vio¬
lent crimes, mostly strong
arm robberies and assaults
with deadly weapons, in the
Castro neighborhood.
But merchants also con¬
tend daily with shoplifters
and street drunks, according
to Les Hennessy of Hen-
nessy’s Liquors, a member of
Merchants of Upper Market.
Hennessy and other mem¬
bers of the group met with
Mission Station Captain
Joaquin Santos and Benson
the day after Oh was shot, to
discuss the group’s concern
over crime problems, includ¬
ing increased uniformed beat
patrols by police and the
problems of street drunks.
Police also gave merchants
tips about crime prevention
in their stores, including in¬
formation about silent elec¬
tronic “panic buttons” that
summon police to a robbery
in progress.
Santos and MOM agreed
to work together on common
crime concerns, including
crime prevention education
and better enforcement of
laws that outlaw liquor stores
from selling alcohol to al¬
ready intoxicated customers.
Although the Castro area
has one beat officer assigned
to walk the district, and po¬
lice patrol cars are assigned to
the area, it is unlikely that
there will be an increase in
regular police presence in the
area because of serious under¬
staffing in the department.
According to the Police Offi¬
cer’s Association, the under¬
staffing continues, despite last
year’s passage of Proposition
172 that approved an addi¬
tional $44 million in state
funds that were re-allocated to
non-public safety funds.
Although a new police
academy class is expected to
place an estimated 40 new of¬
ficers on the street in the next
year, 80 officers are expected
to retire — and staffing levels
will remain below a ten-year-
old federally mandated re¬
quirement that the depart¬
ment have 1,971 officers.
Merchants and business
owners’ concerns were also
evident at a meeting of Castro
area merchants on February
2. That meeting included rep¬
resentatives from In-Jean-ious,
Herth Realty, New Buffalo
Whole Foods, and the Golden
Gate Business Association.
The group plans to net¬
work with MOM and meet
with Supervisors Susan Leal
and Carole Migden about
their concerns. ▼
Blue Eyed Bandit Update:
D.A.'s Office Says Lack of Evidence Prompted Buffleb’s Release
by Dennis Conkin
Felony charges against Ste¬
fan Buffleb, the so-called
“Blue Eyed Bandit,” were
dropped “because of a lack of
evidence,” according to a
spokesperson for the San
Francisco District Attorney.
Buffleb, who has been ac¬
cused of theft by several gay
men who met him in Castro
Street gay bars, was arrested
in the Castro on felony
charges of burglary, credit
card forgery, and possession
of stolen property on Friday,
January 14.
Mission Station police also
charged the German national
with misdemeanor assault on
a police officer and resisting
arrest.
The felony charges against
Buffleb were dismissed be¬
cause the amount that Buffleb
allegedly charged on a stolen
credit card was “significantly
less” than the $400 required
to make the crime a felony.
Buffleb was cited on the
misdemeanor charges, includ¬
ing possession of a stolen
credit card, and is scheduled
to appear in Municipal Court
to answer to the charges and
to have a trial date set.
According to alleged vic¬
tims of Buffleb, after ingrati¬
ating himself with his victims
by telling him that he was a
German tourist who was
down on his luck and needed
a place to stay, Buffleb would
allegedly come home with
them and steal their property.
One gay man allegedly lost
$200 in stolen checks to Buf¬
fleb, plus an undetermined
amount of jewelry and other
items.
Numerous victims have
stepped forward to complain
about Buffleb’s alleged theft
to the Bay Area Reporter -
and make a flurry of com¬
plaints to the police inspector
handling the misdemeanor
charges against the tourist.
One B.A.R. reader said he
met Buffleb on a flight to San
Francisco from Paris last
September and that Buffleb
later called him with a story
that he was beaten up on
Market Street and needed a
place to stay. The reader let
Buffleb stay with him for sev¬
eral days but asked him to
leave a short time later after
he began to believe Buffleb’s
hard luck story was a con and
that he was possibly being set
up.
SFPD Fraud Inspector
Phil Tummarello requested
that Buffleb’s alleged victims
file a report with their local
district police stations and not
contact him directly — because
he is only handling the
charges against Buffleb
brought by one victim.
Although Buffleb is re¬
quired to appear on the
charges, and may do jail time
if he is convicted, it is unlike¬
ly that he will be deported
from the country on a misde¬
meanor by the Immigration
and Naturalization Service,
because the charges are not
felony charges. ▼
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from several local high
schools will meet with mem¬
bers of Lavender Youth
Recreation and Information
Center at a pizza party, co¬
sponsored by the School Dis¬
trict’s Gay and Lesbian Sup¬
port Services For Youth. The
party is scheduled for this
Friday, February 4, according
to Crystal Jang, a staffer of
the school program.
“Basically what we’re try¬
ing to do is set up a time and
create a place where they can
come together and meet other
kids who don’t access support
service programs,” Jang told
the Bay Area Reporter.
“Many of the kids in
school don’t feel safe enough
to come out as lesbian and
gay or bisexual and don’t
know each other. It’s basically
a pizza party, and we hope
that kids will come and get to
know each other and to intro¬
duce school kids to LYRIC,”
Jang said.
Jang, an out lesbian teach¬
er who has been with the pro¬
ject since September and
with the school district for 24
years, says the joint project is
just another effort of the pro¬
gram to reach out to lesbian
and gay youth — and that’s
why she signed onto the pro¬
ject.
“It’s pretty much full circle
for me. I came out 15 years
ago. I was born and raised
and educated in San Francis-
Clear as crystal: Crystal Jang of Support Services for Gay and
Lesbian Youth.
(Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland)
co and I never thought a pro¬
gram like this would happen.”
“An issue of visibility"
According to Jang, her in¬
volvement is an opportunity
to be a role model to lesbian
and gay youth and expand
the diversity and visibility of
lesbians and gays of color.
“It’s an issue of visibility
for me. I’m an Asian lesbian
and it’s really important that
kids of color have someone to
identify with. I make myself
accessible,” she said.
The program was recently
invited to a district school
classroom by a teacher, after
an episode of anti-gay epithets
and name-calling among stu¬
dents in an area middle
school, Jang said.
“We also do in-service edu¬
cation throughout the school
system, helping teachers be¬
come more aware of — and
how to respond to — diversity,
and look at their homophobia,”
she said.
The program also works
with gay and lesbian teachers
and parent associations.
“We do a wide range of
things, including working
with students who may be re¬
ferred to us because they are
having a sexual identity crisis,
or questioning themselves, or
having problems,” Jang said.
For more information
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about LYRIC, call 703-6150. ▼
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Community News
Rocky Mountain School Seeks
Gay and Lesbian Parents of Tots
Vise squad: A parent shows two children how to use a ham¬
mer and a vise at the Rocky Mountain Participation Nursery.
(Photo: Rick Gerharter)
by Dennis Conkin
Gay lesbian parents of
children between the ages of
two and a half to almost six
years old, who are interested in
joining a cooperative nursery,
are now being sought by
Rocky Mountain Participation
Nursery at 15th and Beaver
Streets in the Castro District.
The parents’ cooperative,
open weekdays mornings
from September through
May, is licensed by the state
Department of Social Ser¬
vices for as many as 20 fami¬
lies.
Because the school is a pro¬
ject of City College of San
Francisco’s Child Develop¬
ment and Family Studies Pro¬
ject, the program’s students
aren’t the children — rather,
they are the parents who are
enrolled in CCSF’s non-credit
program.
The nursery is directed by
a parent-educator assigned to
the program full-time. The di¬
rector, Effie Kuriloff, an early
childhood education specialist
and mother of three with a
Master’s from New York’s
prestigious Bank Street Col¬
lege of Education, has been
with the program since 1965.
The school, which began
in 1948 in Potrero Hill,
moved to its current site at
the Peixoto Clubhouse in
1977 after a period at the Eu¬
reka Valley Recreation Cen¬
ter.
“We’re inviting parents
who want to learn about par¬
enting and children and about
themselves,” Kuriloff told the
Bay Area Reporter.
The school has had lesbian
and gay parents as members
before — including a gay male
couple that helped the school
get a grant from one of the cou-
ple’s employers for the
program.
Parents who are involved
with Rocky Mountain spend
five hours a week at school
with the children and also
meet once a week in an “el¬
der’s circle” to talk amongst
themselves, Kuriloff says.
Parents learn a great deal,
too — about child develop¬
ment and about themselves as
individuals as well as learning
parenting skills and having
the opportunity to relate to
other parents, said Trudy Li¬
onel, who has a daughter in
the program.
“The people are wonderful"
“All the parents want the
best for their children. It’s a
small school and the people
are wonderful,” Lionel said.
Rocky Mountain’s empha¬
sis is on developing a child’s
age and developmentally ap¬
propriate intellectual, physi¬
cal, and emotional and social
skills in the real world,
Kuriloff said'.
Children attending the pro¬
gram participate in a variety
of daily group and individual
activities: their projects run
the gamut from field trips to
painting, reading groups,
games and other activities —
such as wreath making, Play-
Doh pounding, and carpentry
projects, often based on par¬
ent interests or skills. In the
past, students have also
helped to make a Names Pro¬
ject quilt section in memory
of one of the kid’s fathers
who died of AIDS.
Many of the children at the
school attended that father’s
funeral and tossed glitter and
dirt into the burial site as
they completed their personal
goodbye rituals to their
friend.
Rocky Mountain “provides
an antidote to isolation expe¬
rienced by families in urban
San Francisco,” Kuriloff says
in one chapter oiThrowing
Light On What Is, a book she
is completing.
“Bonding and trust devel¬
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Santa Clara Boy Scouts Promise
United Way Not To Discriminate
But Experts Think That's a Load of Crap
by Lyn Duff
The Santa Clara chapter of
the Boy Scouts of America has
signed an agreement with
United Way of Santa Clara,
promising not to discriminate
against gay scouts and adult
volunteers.
The agreement follows a
military-style “don’t ask, don’t
tell” policy. If a scout acknowl¬
edges his homosexuality that
is considered “conduct” and is
not protected under this new
agreement. The agreement
only states that the Boy Scouts
will not violate civil rights un¬
der the constitution. However,
the BSA has claimed in a re¬
cent lawsuit initiated by Tim
Curran, a gay former scout,
that the group is immune
from the federal civil rights
bill because its express pur¬
pose is to be anti-gay.
Wigsy Siverston of Bay
Area Municipal Election Com¬
mittee recently met with Unit¬
ed Way to express her con¬
cerns regarding the agree¬
ment. “The United Way has
been hoodwinked into believ¬
ing what the BSA is saying,
and United Way is caught in
an untenable bind because
donors are saying if you don’t
give to the scouts, we won’t
give to you.’ The bottom line
is that our issues don’t count.
If this was about blacks or
Jews, we wouldn’t be here.”
A few weeks before it was
discovered that an agreement
between Santa Clara United
Way and the BSA was being
negotiated, it also came to
light that Santa Cruz Boy
Scouts had approached United
Way with a similar proposal.
Feeling that it had a break¬
through, Santa Cruz United
Way contacted Ken McPher¬
son of Forgotten Scouts, an or¬
ganization of gay former boy
scouts. They were not expect¬
ing his response to it.
“Both agreements were
completely fraudulent,” he
told the Bay Area Reporter.
“The BSA knew when it
signed them that it wouldn’t
actually follow the agree¬
ment.” After speaking to
McPherson, the United Way
of Santa Cruz confronted the
Boy Scouts, which immediate¬
ly withdrew its request for
funding.
Siverston sees the recent
events as a step forward, not
because she believes the
scouts are going to stop dis¬
criminating against gays, but
because “we were told if it
was shown that the BSA dis¬
criminates that they could be
defunded, and that’s definitely
a step forward.” ▼
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A boy's best friend: super salesperson and makeup artist to the stars, Juliet White, was 86ed
from Nordstrom's after assisting a male client at her counter. (Photo: Rick Gerharter)
How Much Does
Nordstrom's Hate
by Dennis Conkin
Nordstrom’s department
store said “Happy New Year”
to a make-up artist who made
$200,000 in cosmetics sales at
the store last year by firing
her, apparently because she
was spending too much time
making up men, including
well known performance
artists and female imperson¬
ators.
Juliet White, who holds a
bachelor’s degree from an es¬
teemed local art school, al¬
leges to the Bay Area Re¬
porter that she was in the
middle of assisting a male
make-up client at the counter
on New Year’s Eve when she
received a call to report to
her manager’s office. After
she had finished serving the
customer, she reported to the
office, where she says she was
told she was being terminated
because of two customers’
complaints. White says she
was told both complaints
came from women, one of
whom complained that White
was busy selling merchandise
to a man and hadn’t assisted
her.
Although White remem¬
bers the customer, she said
that no Nordstrom’s supervi¬
sor or manager had ever
bothered to discuss the inci¬
dent with her.
“There were three people
ahead of her. No one came to
me and told me about the
complaint,” White told the
Bay Area Reporter.
A Nordstrom’s spokesper¬
son said that White’s dis¬
missal had nothing to do with
her allegations.
Although Kjorina Boyd, a
Nordstrom’s spokesperson,
said “it would be unfair to
discuss any employee’s reason
for leaving Nordstrom’s,” she
did tell the Bay Area Re¬
porter that customer com¬
plaints has “nothing to do”
with White’s firing.
Boyd also said that make¬
overs and cosmetic demon¬
stration were provided free to
men and women customers
alike, and that Nordstrom’s
valued every customer “in¬
cluding members of the gay
community.”
Uncustomary customers?
Among White’s customers
are local performance artists
and impersonators such as
Madeline, Jade, and Pussy
Tourette, as well as actors
and others entertainers.
“I did a lot of the club kids.
They’d all come on Saturday
and they all wanted me to
help them. Maybe they
thought I was being too
friendly, but they were cus¬
tomers,” White said.
White said that she was ter¬
minated because the store
didn’t like her assisting cutting
edge performance artists with
cosmetic merchandise.
“It was definitely homo-
phobic. They just don’t under¬
stand creative people.
“I just don’t know what
else to say,” White told the
B.A.R. “ I’d forgotten what
it’s like to be in a suburban
store. I’m an artist and I’m
used to being around creative
people, “ she said.
According to White, Nord¬
strom’s manager are recruited
from within the chain; many
are from outside San Francis¬
co and do not understand or
relate well to gays — especial¬
ly those who are on the cut¬
ting edge of contemporary ur¬
ban culture.
“They don’t really under¬
stand the gay community, but
that community is our Holly¬
wood,” White said.
White, who has a B.EA.
from the California College of
Arts and Crafts, has contacted
an attorney about the termi¬
nation and has also filed for
unemployment.
Ironically, the firm that
makes the popular cosmetic is
MakeUp Art Company, a
Toronto-based enterprise
started by two gay lovers who
used to use drag queens in
their fashion shows, according
to White.
White was one month
away from receiving an in¬
store award for selling almost
$210,000 of the firm’s prod¬
ucts when she was told she
was fired.
The company’s popular
products including color pots,
foundation, and other items,
are only available at Nord¬
strom’s, locally.
Prior homophobia?
White’s charges of homo¬
phobia are the latest to hit the
retail outlet.
Last year several gay man,
including a parishioner at
Trinity Episcopal Church,
claimed that they were unfair¬
ly accused of sexual solicita¬
tion in the Nordstrom’s pub¬
lic restroom by undercover
security personnel for the
chain.
The Trinity parishioner de¬
nied the charges but the store
failed to respond to a request
of Father Robert Cromey,
rector of the church, to meet
Queers?
with him and the parishioner
about the incident. ▼
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Editorial
Justice Forever/Justice For Evers
It seems only fitting that the trial that may finally bring
justice to bear on the killer of the great African-American civil
rights worker Medgar Evers kicks off in February, Black His¬
tory Month. In fact, too many people don’t remember Evers,
or his tireless crusade to bring equality to all: that’s why Amer¬
ica needs a Black History Month. We could also use, obviously,
a gay history month to let people know where we’ve been and
where we are.
The Evers case, for those who don’t know, is almost 30
years old now. Evers was shot dead in his driveway in 1965
with a gun belonging to an avowed white supremacist named
Byron De La Beckwith, who claimed at the time the gun had
been stolen and that he was not the murderer. De La Beckwith
was apparently more forthcoming with other people he con¬
sidered compatriots: at least two have now testified he bragged
about committing the crime.
This is De La Beckwith’s third trial for Evers’s murder; the
first two juries were all white, all male, and all too eager to tac¬
itly support his actions by holding out for mistrials. (There is
some evidence of jury tampering in the second trial, and there
may be irregularities in the first, as well.) Now, prosecutors
hope, there may be a chance to put De La Beckwith behind
bars and provide some small measure of comfort to Evers’s
widow and the children who heard the gunshot and ran out to
find their father — or, more specifically, a dead body that used
to be their father. A guilty verdict will not bring him back to
them, but it will ameliorate a situation that has been without
a bright side for 29 years.
We mention this because when the latest trial opened, a
prosecutor told CNN that “the eyes of the world are upon Mis¬
sissippi.” We hope so. And we hope that the world focuses ex¬
actly 100 miles away from the courthouse where the trial is
held, to see what’s happening in Ovett.
That is, of course, where Sister Spirit is located, the camp
run by two lesbians who moved to the rural area to be isolated
from city strife and bask in nature. Instead, they have been
hounded by over 400 petty De La Beckwiths-in-training. For
an update on the case, see Marghe Covino’s stories on pages
14 and 15.
As Covino points out, the Klan Act of 1875 seems to address
some of the problems we in the lesbian and gay community
are now facing at the hands of narrow-minded bigots. Perhaps
it is time for the groups that say they are working on securing
our rights to stop reinventing the wheel and use the statutes
already on the books, instead of waiting for our obviously sex¬
ually frustrated lawmakers to pass a bill that will do any good.
We hope they are taking note.
Mississippi God Damage
Returning to De La Beckwith for a moment, he reportedly
made a comment that he would do anything necessary “for a
white Christian nation.” We don’t doubt that he said that, any
more than we doubt he and Jesus Christ would despise each
other if they ever met.
We also wonder what the Ovett townsfolk would say if that
carpenter and his dozen male compatriots (plus the occasional
visiting whore, etc.) showed up to start a commune. Undoubt¬
edly the town would be in the same kind of uproar it is now
experiencing over the Sister Spirit women.
Probably, we think, the Ovettans would kill Jesus. In his
own name, of course.
Lots and lots of people have been killed in the name of
God, despite His own pronouncement to judge not. We hope
nobody at Sister Spirit will fall into that sad category. And we
pray that the United States government is on the ball, watch¬
ing for further signs of trouble.
We wish everyone at Sister Spirit the best, and hope for all
concerned that the eyes of the world remain on Mississippi for
a while.
A Final Wish
And to everyone everywhere, including Byron De La Beck¬
with: have a thoughtful, informed, and humanitarian Black His¬
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Goodbye Les, from a Navy NC0
by Christopher A. Plount
Petty Officer Second Class, U.S. Navy
Farewell, Secretary of Defense Les Asp in,
it’s been an eventful year. Thanks for the hours
of overtime you put in on vacation at taxpay¬
ers’ expense in Italy, and for supporting the air¬
line industry by flying commercial when you
took that vacation to the Bahamas. I’m sure
American Airlines enjoyed having you aboard,
and gave you first class treatment after you
crossed that darn picket line to make the gate.
We know you’d like to share the credit with
the President, but we can’t forget your office
writes policy for the DoD: the President’s sig¬
nature only puts it into effect.
Soldiers in Somalia are thankful to you for
giving them a chance to test out their weapons
in a combat scenario, watch their friends get
blown away and captured by hostile forces, all
courtesy of your neglect to provide the addi¬
tional armor they desperately needed. Does the
word “culpability” mean anything to you, sir?
And let’s not forget the most unusual gift: a
new policy on homosexual behavior for our na¬
tion’s warriors.
Thanks to your efforts, gay servicemembers
can serve as long as they don’t make anyone
too uncomfortable and “don’t engage in or
have the propensity to engage in homosexual
acts.” As a product of a Texas education, I
might not see all the ramifications of this state¬
ment, but it seems illegal to place those restric¬
tions on homosexuals but not heterosexuals.
Saying “servicemembers are not allowed to en¬
gage in or have the propensity to engage in
any sexual act” seems much more equitable,
and should prevent all those nasty discrimina¬
tion cases heading your way.
Understandably, the majority of gay and les¬
bian servicemembers are discreet in their rela¬
tionships and separate their professional and
personal lives. I do wonder what constitutes a
“reasonable person.” Are “reasonable” people
exclusively heterosexual? Is the word of an ac¬
cusing officer considered more “reasonable”
than that of a defensive enlisted man?
Mr. Aspin, as you are aware, when a person
is accused of a crime in this great land of ours,
the burden of proof lies with the state. Bearing
this in mind I hope you can understand how
deeply concerned I was to hear a pentagon
spokesperson state, “If it becomes clear that
they are homosexual, if they state their homo¬
sexuality, they have the opportunity to show
that they do not engage in acts.” In essence, the
servicemember is considered guilty, and must
prove himself innocent and dispel the charges
leveled against him. A gay male must show
that he has not had sex with other men, a les¬
bian with women. How this can be presented
is beyond me.
Now it’s time for you to ride into the sunset
— with almost certain book deals and a lecture
series in tow. Your tenure at the Pentagon
might have been short, sir, but the nation will
always remember the, shall we say, interesting
state of affairs you left at the DoD.
Naturally, as with all great leaders, there is
an opportunity of you to leave a parting quote
for which you will always be remembered. My
personal favorite so far is, “The important
thing is that an acrimonious fight in Congress
was avoided. The Defense Authorization bill
was passed and the White House was permit¬
ted to preserve its political capital for other
fights.” In other words, “It’s a damn good thing
that we got our money and thank God we
didn’t waste any more of our President’s ten¬
uous credibility with the military and Congress
on an issue I don’t care about in the first
place.” Very memorable.
It is said that a President is only as good as
his advisors. Bearing this — and your quote— i n
mind, I now understand why it took this ad¬
ministration nine months to get off the starting
block. In short, Mr. Aspin, you have left quite
a mess for prospective SecDef Perry. But leav¬
ing messes behind is something you seem to
excel at — just ask my shipmates in Somalia.^
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Letters
Gay Youth Rights
In response to your editorial remark that Catholic
priests who join NAMBLA should “put their money
where their mouths are,” I take this to imply that you
feel there is some natural affinity between the stated
positions of the Catholic Church and those of
NAMBLA. I find this comparison ironic, since the
Catholic Church embodies exactly those authoritarian
elements of American culture against which
NAMBLA has struggled for 15 years and represents
a near-perfect contrast for NAMBLA’s own egalitarian
philosophy.
The treatment of Catholics by the Church is direct¬
ly analagous to the treatment of young people by our
legal system: “we’ll tell you when you’re being abus¬
ed ... questioning our authority is a sin... we’ll protect
you from one authority figure by putting you under
the control of yet another one ...”
It is precisely this paternalistic, inherently abusive
attitude which NAMBLA seeks to change. The group
has called for the grantingof full legal rights for young
people so that they can press charges and file suits for
themselves, and for alternative housing and economic
support so that they can escape the abuse of family
members without traumatic court proceedings. Other
demands include greater access for young people to
educational resources, including control over cur¬
riculum — removing the parental “right” of depriv¬
ing young people of sex education and gay-positive
curriculum — and full access to information and
resources for family planning and STD prevention.
Such measures would empower young people to de¬
fend their own interests and ensure that their voices
are heard.
I am also puzzled by your inability to print anything
other than innuendo about NAMBLA or to publish
anything of substance about the issues the group was
formed to address. NAMBLA is one of the oldest gay
rights groups currently operating, and was founded
in response to an explicitly anti-gay witch hunt against
a group of men and mostly teenaged boys who refused
to file complaints against their lovers and resented the
destructive intrusion of homophobic police and media
into their lives.
This country has serious problems with
homophobia and abuse of young people by parents
and by insitutions both secular and religious. Gay
youth suffer disproportionately from both of these op¬
pressions.
David Miller
San Francisco
Exercise More Caution
I am writing to respond to Joseph Kramer’s letter
in the Jan. 27 issue of the B.A.R. In this letter, Mr.
Kramer criticizes the advertisement in your paper by
American Voicemail, Inc., and writes that he has spent
the last 10 years of his professional life trying to “lower
the amount of fear among men.” As the Gay Men’s
Domestic Violence Project Coordinator here at CUAV,
I have spent the last three years urging gay and bisex¬
ual men to exercise more caution in their approach
to dating and sexual situations.
It can actually be quite dangerous to be alone with
someone you don’t know very well. Opening your
home, getting into a car or having sex in a public place
with a complete stranger can make you incredibly
vulnerable, even if he “looks clean-cut” and seems all-
around perfect. It seems reasonable, not paranoid, to
give a stranger (even if you want to date or have sex
with him, he’s still a stranger) a voice mail instead of
a home telephone number.
I have assisted literally hundreds of men who have
been date raped, assaulted, drugged, robbed and
otherwise abused by men whom they believed they
could trust. Most of them never imagined that this
could happen to them. Unfortunately, gay and bisex¬
ual men are no more immune from date assault than
are women.
It is not CUAV’s mission to promote fear, fear of in¬
timacy, paranoia or anti-sex attitudes. It is our mission
to provide accurate information so that people can
make the best possible choices concerning their per¬
sonal safety.
Finally, violence is always the responsibility of the
perpetrator and “bad judgement” never excuses or
justifies violence. If you are victimized by a date or
partner, call our CrisisLine at 333-HELP for support
and information about our counseling and advocacy
services.
Greg Merrill, Gay Men's Violence
Project Coordinator, C.U.A.V.
San Francisco
E-Mail Enthusiasm
I have just finished reading David Batterson’s arti¬
cle about Millenium Online in the Bay Area Reporter
and I enjoyed it very much.
I saw MO’s inside front-cover ad in Ten Percent and
ordered the disk but I decided not to sign on (the in¬
terface seemed kind of primitive and the sign-on
seemed pretty complicated, a bad omen for me), but
Batterson’s article has persuaded me to give the ser¬
vice another try.
Bryce Hardy
brycehardy@aol.com
Attitude = Death
The following letter was sent to Pat
Christen, Executive Director, San Francisco
AIDS Foundation:
Please remove my name from your contributors list.
I cannot justify my continuing support of an organiza¬
tion which contributes to the invisibility of older gay
men. Your latest barrage of bus posters depicting yet
another wreathed Adonis confirmed my anger. Once
again, we are invalidated.
In your perverse way, you actually contribute to an
attitude that leads older gay men to have unsafe sex.
From your years of poster boys, it is safe to surmise
that men over 40 couldn’t be having sex or we are all
dead. Surprise!
Perhaps your campaign committee needs to do a lit¬
tle soul-searching regarding its ageist mentality. Or
would they prefer we all die off so as not to remind
them that they too will soon be old? It must terrify
some of the young men around town to try visualiz¬
ing old sex.
Please don’t tell me you are working on the pro¬
blem. You have had 10 years to work on it and you have
consciously chosen not to. There is lots of anecdotal
information which should have informed you that gay
men of all ages are having unsafe sex for all variety
of reasons. If you’re young, it’s because you’re immor¬
tal; if you’re old, what is there to look forward to but
more old?
The queer world has intensified what is already an
endemic cultural disregard for allowing older people
to have whole lives which includes sex. As a sub¬
culture, we bray on about every perceived affront to
our personal and social freedoms, yet, blithely per¬
form emotional assassination every day against
ourselves.
It is not only silence that equals death; attitude
equals death ... acknowledgement equals life.
Philip Rossetti
San Francisco
Bath House vs. Sex Club
The following letter was sent to Dr. Sandra
Hernandez, Dept, of Public Health, 101
Grove St., Room 308, San Francisco, CA
94102:
As a gay man living in San Francisco, I love the
freedoms here that so much of the rest of the U.S.
deprives its gay and lesbian sons and daughters. One
of those freedoms is my choice to visit a sex club.
Granted, I have been to sex clubs that have been very
dirty and disgusting (I have refused to visit these) and
I have occasionally seen unprotected oral sex between
consenting adults. 1 have never seen unprotected anal
sex but this is not to say it does not exist.
If we start closing sex clubs because “it contributes
to the spread of the AIDS virus,” then closing bars,
dance clubs, restaurants, Bingo halls, etc. that serve
liquor and beer cannot be far behind. These also con¬
tribute to one’s way of thinking as reported by top
medical authorities.
If one is closing the sex clubs because of un¬
cleanliness, then it is time to think about reopening
bathhouses where the lighting is better, showers are
provided, clean towels and bedding, socializing is en¬
couraged and work out opportunities are available.
Several establishments I know of offer safe sex classes,
anonymous testing, etc.
I feel it is better having sex clubs that provide
cleanliness, safety for patrons and a place to go to
socialize or have sex. Who knows — maybe both. I
prefer bath houses to sex clubs, but until then we have
to live (or die) for whatever we believe in.
Steven D. Keller
San Francisco
Primacy of Love
Friends of mine were so amused by Mike Varady’s
letter captioned, “Membership Has Privilege?”
{B.A.R., Jan. 13, 1994, pp.8) suggesting NAMBLA of¬
fer group membership relates to Catholic priests, as
well as your own clever retort, that I would have been
hard pressed to miss it.
First, let me praise you both for the adroitness of
your wit and the cleverness of your banter, it brought
a wry smile to my face.
Second, as a gay man, a Catholic-Christian and a
secular Franciscan, I’ve always found it bemusing that
there exists this repartee between some members of
the community and some members of the church
since both communities talk about justice and claim
the primacy of love as their praxis. Both communities
have enriched my life. And, I am grateful to both. Per¬
haps, “in the spirit of conciliation and the recently past
holiday season ...” we can move beyond stereotypes
and globalizing to see each other as individuals (for
who we really are), and not as a group (for what others
say about us). Maybe, as co-joint members of the
human community, we can accord each other the
privilege of our own humanity.
Pax et bonum,
Mark. J. Walker,
San Francisco
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The following letter was sent to the SF Bay
Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 124
Beale St., San Francisco:
With regard to my rejection as a pack leader for San
Francisco Pack 3 (Chinatown-North Beach), the
parents of Pack 3 had a meeting on Friday, Jan. 14 to
select a new leader. I said that I would take the posi¬
tion if I could declare that I was gay. I was summarily
rejected for consideration for the position.
Let me mention a few of my qualifications: I grew
up a Scout and found scouting an enjoyable and worth¬
while activity. My son is a Scout and he loves it. I
was formerly a school teacher. I have written a book
and numerous newspaper and magazine articles. I
own my own business and am a respected member
of the business community.
I am and have been an active member of Amnesty
International for decades. Gay civil rights now have
international recognition. Gay civil rights have
widespread Bay Area community support. I cannot
in good conscience take a leadership position in an
organization that discriminates. I had several parents
agree that being gay is as irrelevant as being straight,
Black, Chinese, Jewish or Mexican for Scout
leadership.
I urge the Council to cease their bigotry and
recognize contemporary and community standards of
human rights. If they cannot, they should not complain
about a cut-off of funding from organizations like
United Way and assistance from government agencies.
It’s time for the Boy Scouts Council to lead the good
fight.
. George Davis
San Francisco
Quit Limiting Opportunities
Regarding Alan Frutkin’s recent article, “Back to
the Couch,” I am (once again) disturbed by the BA.R.’s
carelessness in covering topics of interest or concern
to its non-white readers. Why does Mr. Frutkin
assume that any gay material programmed in the Liv¬
ing Room Festival came exclusively from Frameline?
Did the reporter bother to interview Jennifer
Maytorena Taylor (one of Mr. Finch’s co¬
programmers), a latina queer? Perhaps if he had done
so, he would have reported more accurately that
Seams, although decided upon collectively by
Frameline, Cine Accion and NAATA, was originally
brought forth to the committee by Ms. Taylor.
Is it so inconceivable that just because people of col¬
or work for ethnically identified organizations that
they cannot also be lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, trans¬
gender? Or that these same people cannot be as con¬
cerned with lesbian and gay issues as (white) lesbian
and gay people seem to be with issues of racism? God
knows we’re always referencing and making analogies
to oppression faced by blacks. The reporter did not
assume that Jack Walsh wasn’t gay (or is gay) just
because he works for KQED.
My point is simple: please quit limiting oppor¬
tunities for people to have a voice in your publication.
Follow Frameline’s example in future: focus on the
commonalities of oppression, “on what lesbians and
gays share with other cultural groups.” They might
even share the same sexuality!
Desi del Valle
San Francisco
Save the Memorials
The brief UPI report on a proposed AIDS memorial
“garden” in San Diego’s Balboa Park is accurate but
limited (B.AR. , Jan. 20). A reader might wonder if op¬
ponents were unsympathetic.
Actually, debate has been raging within San Diego’s
queer and AIDS communities for several months.
Many AIDS activists fear diversion of funds away
from urgently needed care and research.
A few persons propose different types of memorials,
less vulnerable to vandals, such as new carillon bells
for the park; or a silent CD version of The Names
Quilts. After the war, not during.
G. Tortuga
La Jolla, CA
Prowling and Sniffing
In the spirit of achieving and maintaining a more
pleasant urban environment, the Duboce Park Poop
Patrol (DPPP) — an underground organization
dedicated to eradicating the despicable practice of per¬
sons permitting their canines’ crap to become a per¬
manent part of the park’s composition — is redoubling
its efforts to stymie this type of park pollution.
Whenever a human companion feigns unfamiliari¬
ty with a four-legged friend who is squatting in
response to nature’s nudging, we will be there!
Whenever a person pulls a car over to the curb,
flings open a door with the motor still running, a
quadrupedal bundle of fur speeds into the park,
dumps, then darts back into the car — we’ll be there!
Jerry R. DeYoung
San Francisco
Ed. Note: We welcome the return of Duboce Park
as a habitat for humans.
Hurricane Homo
On the night of Jan. 17th, following the earthquake
in Los Angeles, Pat Robertson went on the 700 Club
to announce that gay and lesbian people were respon¬
sible for (1) the earthquake, (2) the blizzards in the
eastern U.S., (3) the floods in the midwest, (4) the hur¬
ricane in Florida and (5) the famine in Africa.
He “reasoned” that these natural disasters were the
judgement of “god” upon America because the right
wing has not risen up and “done something” about us.
I would ordinarily ignore him, except that he was
in the middle of a telethon that had already raised $1.17
million to keep his dog and pony show on the air.
Please note that the money was being raised for that
purpose and not for victims of the earthquake, bliz¬
zard, floods hurricane or the famine!
If you disagree with him, please call him at 1-800
759-0700 and let him know. It’s his nickel... every call
we make is that much less money for him to spend on
gay bashing.
Bud Clark
San Diego
Double Standards Are Sickening
Let me see if I’ve got this right.
Angela Alioto is being criticized for removing two
“lesbian supervisors” from various committees of the
Board of Supervisors.
A few weeks ago, Alioto was being slammed for
referring to Carole Migden as a “lesbian supervisor.”
Now, a group called The Alliance has taken it upon
themselves to speak for the gay/lesbian community
and inform Ms. Alioto that “we” will not support her
in the 1995 mayoral race because of her non-support
of the two “lesbian supervisors” for reelection.
There has been a lot of talk about the possibility of
Carole Migden running for mayor in 1995. Many peo¬
ple have stated that it is time for a “lesbian mayor.”
I agree. It would be great to have a lesbian mayor —
Roberta Achtenberg. But the fact that a person is gay
or lesbian does not automatically qualify them. I am
so sick of the double standard that goes on in politics
in this community.
Ronny Marshall
San Francisco
See You At Easter
You’ve done it again! Volunteers, we heartily salute
you! The Tenderloin Tessie Christmas Dinner was an
even more resounding success than ever before. Bet¬
ween 800 and 900 people had a brighter, more caring
holiday because of your hard work. It is with sincerest
gratitude that we, quite simply thank you! Also special
thanks to Polk Gough and Suzie Cartwright, Emperor
Douglas Stromberg, Empress Mozzarella, Gladys
Bumps & Husbands.
Looking forward to having your participation for
our Easter Dinner. You are appreciated.
Mr. Lee Ona and Pushy Phyllis
San Francisco
Human Arrogance
Michael Botkin’s “comic” picture of guinea pigs
discussing their poison in an animal research
laboratory was not funny! It was repulsive and cruel
and clearly states the author’s crude insensitivity to
the poor, tortured and murdered animals that are
sacrificed in the name of medical research estimated
at 100 million a year.
Oh, such human arrogance that anyone could even
make a joke about the misery and suffering that con¬
tinues to happen in laboratories all over the world.
The number of animals that are subjected to the most
atrocious and painful procedures without anesthetic
makes the Nazi/Holocaust look mild!!
And if the lack of morality does not move you, then
perhaps the scientific fraud will. Animal experimen¬
tation is fraudulent research. Animals have a different
reaction to drugs than humans. Just remember the
Thalidomide babies of the 60s. Pregnant women were
given Thalidomide after the FDA approved the drug
after being clinically tested on rats. The result: 10,000
grossly deformed human babies were born because
the rats tested successfully. Conclusion: rats are dif¬
ferent from humans. Unfortunately, Thalidomide is
still prescribed through a different name.
So, there, Michael Botkin, author of the HIV Watch.
If you really want to help find a cure for AIDS, start
educational alternative methods of research, i.e., the
human placenta. And maybe you will be instrumen¬
tal in finding a cure for AIDS.
Rev. Judy Fine
Healdsburg, California
Ed. Responds: (a) The cartoon was not by Botkin;
(b) Oh, such arrogance that anyone could even suggest
medical research to save human life, carried out on
animals, equals the suffering of six million Nazi-
sponsored human deaths; (c) the Thalidomide tragedy
wasn’t caused by lab rats; the practice of screening
drugs by testing them on animals has no doubt saved
other babies from birth defects — not that you care;
and, (d) Go ahead and be ashamed. Your holier-than-
thou attitude is more than enough reason for shame.
[In other words: so there!]
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Wayne Friday
Garamendi Gears Up
For Gubernatorial Bid
J ohn Garamendi, the 49-
year-old professional
politician from the Gold
Rush area of Calaveras
County, formally an¬
nounced this past weekend
that he is indeed in the race
for the Democratic Party
nomination for governor.
However, Garamendi, a veter¬
an of 20 years in public office
(two in the Assembly, 14 in
the state Senate, and the last
four as the state’s first elected
insurance commissioner),
finds himself in an uphill bat¬
tle for his party’s nod to face
Republican incumbent Pete
Wilson in November. First,
Garamendi must find a way
to defeat fellow Democrat
Kathleen Brown, a much bet¬
ter-known candidate who also
happens to have a huge polit¬
ical war chest (some claim $7
million or more), when he
faces her in the June Demo¬
cratic primary.
Although both Garamendi
and Brown lead Wilson in
current statewide polls in hy¬
pothetical November match¬
ups, many think Brown has
the definite advantage merely
by being a woman in a state
that in 1992 elected two wom¬
en to the U.S. Senate. Howev¬
er, although Kathleen Brown
led both Garamendi and Wil¬
son by huge margins in earli¬
er polls, the gap between the
two Democrats has been clos¬
ing as of late, and some
Democratic state officials are
known to be secretly worried
that having two women at the
head of their ticket (Senator
Dianne Feinstein must stand
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for re-election this year) might
actually be a political disad¬
vantage. If Garamendi keeps
closing the gap between him¬
self and Brown, she could, de¬
spite her early lead and ad¬
vantage in fundraising, find
herself on the short end when
facing him in June.
Like all statewide hope¬
fuls, Garamendi’s announce¬
ment Saturday brought with
it assurances that he, too, will
be running as a tough law-
and-order candidate. Crime is
the issue for candidates of
both parties this year, and
Garamendi, not to be left out,
pledged a hard line on crimi¬
nals. He touted boot camps
for felons, supported the
death penalty, and embraced
the controversial “three
strikes and you’re out” initia¬
tive headed for the November
ballot.
Saying that it is time to get
rid of the Inmate’s Bill of
Rights, which he stated “guar¬
antees prisoners access to
television, air conditioning, li¬
braries and weight sets,”
Garamendi left no room for
doubt that he could be as
tough on crime as any Demo¬
crat — or Republican. Howev¬
er, while blaming much of
the state’s problems on crime,
Garamendi also went out of
his way to praise drug treat¬
ment programs, claiming that
“most crime is drug-related
and I’ll find the money for
treatment programs because
it is one of my priorities.”
In the press conference at
his Mokelumne Hill home,
Garamendi even quoted Jesse
Jackson (who some say will
come to California to cam¬
paign for Garamendi) on the
need to spend more on social
programs, and bemoaned the
state’s ever-growing correc¬
tions budget, noting that “in
the past 12 years, we’ve built
23 major jails in this state and
only one state college cam¬
pus, and yet I ask you, do you
really think you are safer?”
While promising to “end state
welfare programs as we cur¬
rently know them,” the candi¬
date also said this does not
mean cutting money from
families but rather providing
them with state-created jobs,
which even he admitted
would probably cost more
than the current welfare sys¬
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Garamendi has in previous
speeches already staked out
the lonely position of being
the only gubernatorial hope¬
ful to call for a tax hike to
help pay for the rebuilding of
post-quake Los Angeles, but
refused to talk about this on
Saturday, preferring to stay
focused on crime like every
other politico. Get used to it,
folks; the Polly Klaas case,
the Menendez brothers trial,
the continuing rise in crime
statistics make it a foregone
conclusion: the winners in
November will be the candi¬
dates who best convince the
electorate that they will be
tougher on crime.
As for the Democratic
nominee against Wilson, well,
Brown clearly has the advan¬
tage now, but John Garamen¬
di is looking better and better
to those chomping at the bit
to get rid of Wilson. I
wouldn’t be surprised if he is
the upset Democratic primary
winner in June. Stay tuned to
this one; it’s only beginning.
Politics and poker
To those who have called
complaining that “leaders” of
the Toklas Democratic Club
have decided that their group
will “boycott” a meeting with
Mayor Jordan later this
month: yep, this is definitely
what’s called “biting off your
nose to spite your face.”
Nope, it doesn’t make sense.
Hell, folks, you don’t have to
agree with everything Jordan
does or says, but don’t cry lat¬
er that he isn’t sympathetic or
cooperative if you won’t even
meet with the guy.
When Representative Don
Edwards announced last
week that he’d retire from his
16th congressional seat, for¬
mer San Jose Mayor Tom
McEnery, already tipped off
in advance by Edwards, was
ready to make the first entry
into the race to succeed the
veteran Democrat. Others
will no doubt follow suit, but
McEnery’s the man to beat in
this safe Democratic district.
At the National Governors
Conference this past week¬
end, even many Republicans
were saying that Bill Clinton’s
State of the Union address
was “one hell of a speech” by
the young president.
Olympic diver and aspir¬
ing actor Greg Louganis is
writing his biography to be
published by Random House.
In it he publicly reveals his
homosexuality for the first
time; the Olympic gold-medal
winner says that “I know
Wheaties didn’t want me [for
commercials) because they
said I didn’t fit their all-Amer¬
ican image. I don’t know if
that was because they had
heard of my sexual orienta¬
tion or not, but my feeling
was that if companies were so
uptight about this, I didn’t
want to work with them any¬
way.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
received a Commitment-to-
Life award last week at the
AIDS Project Los Angeles
fundraising banquet in LA,
where nearly $4 million was
raised to fight the epidemic.
The first lady received a rous¬
ing standing ovation, and the
award was presented by Bar¬
bra Streisand, who, like Eliz¬
abeth Taylor, has dedicated
so much of her work and
time to finding the cure.
Some of Assemblywoman
Jackie Speier’s friends are
now quietly saying that they
expect her to retire from pol¬
itics following the sad, tragic
death of her popular husband,
Dr. Steve Sierra. I’ve known
Speier since she first ran for
the Assembly, and there isn’t
a nicer person in public life.
Dennis Collins is now
working on the Arlo Smith
for Attorney General cam¬
paign, and Mike Housh is
working on the Don Perata
for Controller race.
Former San Francisco po¬
litical consultant Joe Shumate
has resigned from Governor
Wilson’s staff, reopened his
campaign management firm,
and will run GOP Assembly-
man Bill Jones’ campaign for
secretary of state.
Quote of the Week (on the
Lorena Bobbitt trial) from Su¬
san Estrich, longtime feminist
activist, political consultant,
national campaign manager
for Michael Dukakis’ presi¬
dential race, and now a law
professor at UCLA: “Lorena
Bobbitt is a criminal, not a
feminist heroine. Those fem¬
inists who have flocked to her
defense have done a disser¬
vice, not only to the cause of
feminism, but more impor¬
tant, to the real victims of bat¬
tered wives’ syndrome — the
millions of women who are
beaten by their husbands and
do not respond by assaults on
their organs. They are the
women who deserve sympa¬
thy and attention, and sup¬
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system — not Lorena Bobbitt.”
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by Rachel Pepper
the Ladde/t
[.'ARCH 1963
Volume 7, Number b
Cat love: the March 1963 (Volume 7, Number 6) edition of The
Ladder, published by the Daughters of Bilitis.
G etting ready to move
is like diving .off a
cliff: You hold your
breath, pack your
gear, head for the unknown,
and pray it all works out.
This is the position in
which I find myself, here in
the first week of February.
Girlfriend and I are moving
in March, and it’s been the
main thing on my mind. Of
course, some people would
wait until the last week of *he
month to look for a new
abode. You can do that in this
city through rental services
like Community Rentals, pro¬
vided you’re willing to wait.
Just be sure and keep your
fingers crossed.
Being a Taurus, this is an
impossibility for me. I need to
know where I’ll be nesting, so
I’ve already found us a new
pad. It’s a cozy little place in
Bernal Heights, that happen¬
ing ’hood where all the dykes
are flocking. We’ll be hidden
away in a bungalow with all
the luxuries that you can’t
find near the Castro. Like a
garden, a garage — big enough
for two motorcycles, a truck,
and a darkroom — and some
well-deserved peace and
quiet.
Sure, I’ll be further than
five minutes away from most
of the things I now hold near
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and dear. Yes, it may become
an effort to leave my new
house sometimes, so my so¬
cial calendar could suffer. But
I’ll actually be able to hear
the birds chirp from my bed¬
room window. Amazing! We
may even get a hummingbird
feeder and plant tomatoes out
back. Are there humming¬
birds in San Francisco?
The worst part of moving
is not the actual physical task:
no, no, no. That may be
painful, especially when
you’ve accumulated as much
stuff as I have. Ask anyone
who’s a pack rat, though, and
they’ll tell you the same sad
story: the worst thing about
moving is the packing.
Serious undertaking
Sorting through a lifetime
of one’s personal belongings
is a serious, sad undertaking
for someone who is unable to
throw things away. My room¬
mates think it’s a riot that I’m
packing already. They say
they could pack in two hours,
and I believe them. They
don’t have ten years of news¬
papers and magazine clip¬
pings crowding the clothes in
their closets, or an awesome
zine collection, or just about
every issue of Out/Look, Out,
and Outweek ever published.
Not to mention more books
than I’ll ever read, more
clothes than I’ll ever wear,
and more junk than a decent¬
sized garage sale could hope
to rid me of. Help!
It’s incredible the kinds of
things I have found in only a
few days of earnest effort.
Love letters from boys in my
9th grade class, birthday
cards from my long deceased
grandparents, and requests
for my zines from men in
state prison — the kind that
go, “May I offer you, in lieu of
payment, a night of having
your way with me. Being as
you know where to go to get
laid and I haven’t been laid in
eight years, I can offer you
one hell of a good time.
Sound like a deal?”
Side by side with such pro¬
posals lie remnants of a queer
archivist’s dream: old copies
of The Ladder, the lesbian
magazine published primarily
before I was born. Much of its
content was quite visionary,
as this excerpt from a 1963
editorial by Del Martin
shows: “It is said that the ho-
mophile organizations must
do away with the negative
stereotype of the homosexual
... and create a new image ...
who cannot be distinguished
by appearance, but only by
his or her choice of love part¬
ner. The new image would
be a dream or goal for those
homosexuals who had not at¬
tained this exalted state. The
new image would be, and is,
a mockery. The only ‘image’
that will change the public’s
attitude would be of flesh
and blood. Those who deny
their fellows deny them¬
selves, and the ‘image’ be¬
comes a hollow shell without
substance.”
Phew! So much for
straight-acting, straight-look¬
ing! These gals had it togeth¬
er 30 years ago. Come on all
you executives and muscle
boys! After all this time, can
you believe there are still peo¬
ple in the closet?
In this same issue there’s a
It's incredible
the kinds of
things I have
found in only
a few days of
earnest effort.
listing for all the gay books
published in 1962, most of
them long out of print and,
unfortunately, forgotten. Any¬
one out there still got a copy
of Perfume and Pain by
Kimberley Kemp? How
about Trap of Lesbos, Every¬
thing But a Husband, or
Babes Behind Bars? Lesbian
lit may have come a long way
since the early 1960s, but they
sure don’t name ’em like they
used to!
More goodies
Along with such priceless
artifacts, my closet yields oth¬
er goodies awaiting their
transfer to their next home.
The issue of Alpha Flight
where the superhero comes
out; issues of a dishy queer
rag, Town Talk, from 1960s
San Francisco; Rolling Stone
issues featuring Madonna and
Sinead O’Connor on their
covers; and every doodle Di¬
ane DiMassa’s ever scribbled
on a letter to me. Hey, look at
what happened with Andy
Warhol. These could be
worth millions someday!
You may think it’s silly for
me to write a whole column
about the contents of my clos¬
et. But, as gay people, I figure
what we hold on to may have
more significance than what
straight folk do. I think many
people tend to keep things be¬
cause we find them validat¬
ing. All that stuff is a piece of
who we’ve been and what
we’ve become. And who
needs validating more than
queers?
So when I look back on
those old issues of The Lad¬
der, I see more than a de¬
funct lesbian mag. Rather,
when I hold this precious
publication in my hand, I see
where I have come from, and
it inspires me in my own
work as an editor at Deneuve.
Similarly, my copy of Al¬
pha Flight is a mini-mile¬
stone for gay rights if only be¬
cause so many kids read the
words of the first ever “out”
superhero: “I am gay.” And so
it goes with just about every
scrap of paper I unearth.
Somewhere, somehow, all
these things seem less senti¬
mentally scrappy than plain
old queer history. If we don’t
preserve it, who will?
Come moving day, I will
not be a happy girl. Lugging
all these boxes will be hard,
but not as hard as deciding
what merits disposal. For
now, I’ll err on the side of
caution and bring it all with
me, once again. At least now
it won’t cram up my closets.
Our new place has a big base¬
ment just waiting to be
filled! ▼
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California News
Participants in the January 29 demo at the Central California Women's Correctional Facility
at Chowchilla protested the lack of medical treatment for women with HIV/AIDS there.
(Photo: Judi Parks)
Activists Rally at Chowchilla
For Better Prisoner Healthcare
by Judi Parks
Over 100 activists, mostly
Bay Area and queer, drove
three hours to the San
Jouquin Valley and circled the
main gate of the Central Cal¬
ifornia Women’s Facility at
Chowchilla the afternoon of
Saturday, January 29. They
were there, male and female,
to let prison officials know
that they consider appropriate
health care for all incarcerat¬
ed women is a right, not a
luxury.
Carrying signs and chant¬
ing, “Toby Wong, you lie/You
don’t care if prisoners die,”
activists shouted down Wong,
the public information officer
who denied the prison provid¬
ed substandard HIV treat¬
ment and pleaded with the
crowd to “make recommenda¬
tions instead of confronta¬
tion.”
Fresno lawyer Catherine
Campbell, who says she has
investigated medical inade¬
quacies in the prison for two
years, is making a recommen¬
dation. She is filing a class ac¬
tion suit on behalf of over 100
women prisoners she has in¬
terviewed.
ACT UP prison and AIDS
activist Jim Lewis made a rec¬
ommendation, too. His Prison
Issues Committee wrote to
the Honorable Tom Umberg,
Chair of the Assembly Select
Committee on Prison Opera¬
tions, to request an indepen¬
dent audit of the California
Department of Corrections’s
annual budget.
Lewis’s committee had
hoped to determine why ap¬
propriated and allocated tax
monies have failed to secure
community-standard delivery
of health care, and to create
an ongoing office of Inspector-
General to report to the Leg¬
islature and monitor medical
and civil rights issues in the
prisons.
James Gomez, the Director
of the California Department
of Corrections, followed with
a recommendation of his
own. He removed Lewis
from a position — as the only
activist member — on his
“AIDS Advisory Committee,”
one week after the letter was
written.
Inside the prison, activist
and HIV-positive prisoner
Joann Walker also has a rec¬
ommendation, which she
wants others to hear: “I raise
pure hell around here, be¬
cause there is no other way to
get things done,” she said. “I
often run into trouble all the
time because I will speak up
and out. I have no problem
fighting the system. I want to
put a call out around the
world: Help the HIV/AIDS
Incarcerated women at
CCWF.”J
LAVA
(Continued from page 1)
riod, has long been an educa¬
tor and entertainer in the
venue of lesbian safe sex. She
is famous — or infamous — for
leaving no stone unturned
when answering the unan¬
swerable question “What do
lesbians do in bed?” during
her workshops and fundrais¬
ing events.
According to Donoho, the
awards “honor leaders who
have enhanced the image, em¬
powerment, or understanding
of lesbians within and outside
the lesbian community.”
This year the Public Ser¬
vice Award will be presented
to Ruth Mahaney for her edu¬
cational work in developing
women’s studies programs in
California and the western
United States, her tireless ac¬
tivism nationally against
racism, sexism, homophobia,
and physicalism, and her
work with the Gay/Lesbian
Historical Society of North¬
ern California.
The Community Service
Award will honor Lisbeth
Tellefsen, co-founder of Ache:
A Journal for Lesbians of
African Descent and “Ache
Presents,” which has present¬
ed over 40 cultural and educa¬
tional forums. Tellefsen has
worked on behalf of lesbians
as editor, event producer, ac¬
tivist, musician, photographer
and video artist.
The Private Creation
Award goes to independent
The 1994 LAVA [Lean, An¬
gular and Visually Appeal¬
ing?] Awards will be presen¬
ted April 2 at the Westin St.
Francis.
film and video producer, De¬
bra Chasnoff, who won an
Academy Award for Best
Short Documentary of 1991
for Deadly Deception-General
Electric, Nuclear Weapons and
our Environment which
she wrote, produced, and di¬
rected. In accepting her Os¬
car, Chasnoff “came out” on
national television, thanking
her life partner Kim Klausner
for support. Chasnoff, co¬
founder and former editor of
Out/Look, also created the first
documentary film to explore
parenting options for lesbians,
Choosing Children, and Acting
Our Age, a film about women’s
experiences growing old.
California activist Deborah
L. Johnson-Rolon will be the
keynote speaker for the
evening. A board member of
The National Gay and Les¬
bian Task Force and the Na¬
tional Black Gay and Lesbian
Leadership Forum, Johnson-
Rolon is also well known for
her 1984 civil rights action
against Papa Choux, a Los
Angeles restaurant, which she
and her lover successfully
sued when the restaurant re¬
fused to serve them in its
“romantic section” because
they were not heterosexual.
As a community event, the
LAVA awards dinner bene¬
fits “A Fund of Our Own,”
the philanthropic arm of
BACW that was created in
1989 and is administered by
the Horizons Foundation.
During 1993, the fund con¬
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lesbian organizations and
worthwhile projects in the
Bay Area including Bangle,
Battered Women’s Alterna¬
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Artists, Lyon-Martin Wom¬
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Pacific Center, Purple Moon
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VOICES, Whiptail Lizard
Women’s Collective and
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Regional Awards will also
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Wiggsy Silvertsen and Mar¬
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to Joanna Cassese, executive
director of the Lambda Com¬
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that makes it okay to kill and
maim gay and lesbian people;
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on these cases but the televi¬
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the victims, and then made
remark about gay men and
“promiscuity.”
On December 22, James
Graves, 50, was bludgeoned
to death in his bedroom and a
fire was set in the apartment’s
kitchen to attempt to cover
the crime. Police say they are
“very close to arresting a sus¬
pect.” Graves’s death was re¬
ported in the press.
"Probably unrelated"
According to Sacramento
police spokesman, Michael
Heenan, the murder of the
second man, David Van-
gundy, 40, “was probably un¬
related to his being gay.” Van-
gundy has been identified as
a drug dealer and, according
to Heenan, “was killed during
a drug-related break-in at his
apartment.”
The case of John Kajitani,
49, on January 17, was quite
different. Kajitani, a farm
equipment salesman, was
Japanese, and an extremely
closeted, solitary individual
unknown to the “out” gay and
lesbian community. While in¬
vestigating his murder, police
discovered he was a gay man
but respected his privacy.
“I’m not interested in that
aspect of his life except as it
impacts on his murder,” the
investigating officer told the
Bay Area Reporter, “and it’s
not my business to ‘out’ the
man to his family.” Police
quickly arrested a street per¬
son, 18-year-old Danny Cis¬
neros, and charged him with
Kajitani’s murder. Reportedly,
the “street-wise” Cisneros is at¬
tempting to use a “homosexual
panic” alibi, that he killed his
victim after Kajitani made
overtures. However, according
to one police officer, “we know
this wasn’t Danny’s first time
out” [indulging in gay sex].
Particularly noteworthy
was the viciousness of the
killing, in that there were
wounds inflicted on the body
after death. There was little
or no reporting of Kajitani’s
murder at the time of his
death.
Last week, Leon Kaufman,
70, was found stabbed to
death in his mobile home, ap¬
parently two days after he
had been attacked by two as¬
sailants. Kaufman, a retired
produce worker from Lucky
supermarkets, was found clad
in his underwear with multi¬
ple stab wounds to the chest.
He was the volunteer caretak¬
er at Faces, a gay dance bar
in Sacramento, as a kind of
hobby.
Owner Terry Sidie could
barely suppress his tears as
he told the B.A.R ., “Leon was
a sweet old guy. He was like
a member of the staff, he just
wanted to be with people and
he was always pleasant and
helpful to everybody — he
never had a bad word for
anyone.” Sidie said Kaufman
frequently worried about the
street kids and the drugs they
could get into. “Often he
would take them home to
make sure they had some¬
thing to eat and a place to
sleep and clean up,” Sidie
said, “and he’d try to find
them jobs. I kept trying to tell
him not to be so soft-hearted
— that he’d get hurt — but he’d
tell me his boys would never
hurt him. Now look what’s
happened.”
On Monday, police arrest¬
ed a 14-year-old runaway in
the Salt Lake City, Utah,
home of his mother, where he
allegedly fled after the slay¬
ing. He will be charged with
murder. A second suspect, an
adult male, is also close to be¬
ing arrested.
The lurid TV angle
Kaufman’s death sparked a
series of television “teasers”
about his murder and then
expanded to the other mur¬
ders that had taken place.
During the report on KXTV
Channel 10, Kajitani was “out¬
ed” and reporter Dana
Howard connected the deaths
to “promiscuous behavior.”
Cassese is outraged. “This
is a classic example of ‘blam¬
ing the victim,”’ she said. “I’m
sure that word ‘promiscuous’
was used solely because these
crimes are gay-related. That’s
the worst kind of stereotype —
the same thing they do with
women about rape: ‘she was
asking for it.’ If this was hap¬
pening at non-gay singles bars
the words used would be less
judgmental,” she said.
"We help one another"
“Not all gay men pick up
other men just for sex,” Cass¬
ese continued. “Our commu¬
nity has a huge heart — we
help one another, we em¬
pathize when we see some of
KXTV reporter Dana
Howard.
these kids who have been
thrown out of their homes be¬
cause they’re gay, and we try
to help and make things bet¬
ter for them than some of us
had it. In other cases, some¬
times people need help, are
lonely, want companionship
and just a cup of coffee and a
little conversation — and no¬
body, nobody, deserves to be
killed for those reasons or
any other reason.”
Lambda board president
Laura Enright has asked for
an inquiry into the television
report. “As yet, I have not re¬
ceived any information from
the television station which
would convince me that I
should not file a grievance
with the Human Rights Com¬
mission,” Enright said. “I
can’t imagine what this re¬
porter could have been think¬
ing. Certainly, I can see
warning people about taking
strangers into their homes as
a general practice for every¬
one — but this blame the vic¬
tim mentality is outrageous. I
can’t imagine what John Kaji¬
tani’s aged parents must be
going through — all for the
sake of a ten-second sound
bite,” Enright said.
Michael Beardsley, news
director for Sacramento’s
Channel 10, said on January
31 he would review the tape
of the newscast and “get
back” to the B.A.R. ▼
California News
Dragon slayers
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Zia, contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. (Photo: Rick Gerharter)
Gay Sec'y of State
Candidate Miller
Gets Mugged in L.A.
Get Out Of The Old.
Get Into The Cold.
by Marghe Covino
B.A.R. Capitol Correspondent
LOS ANGELES - “It’s all
in a day’s work, some bad
guy has my wallet and phone
but I have my life,” Tony
Miller, the openly gay candi¬
date for California Secretary
of State, told the Bay Area
Reporter Tuesday from a
meeting place in Beverly
Hills.
Last Friday, January 21,
Miller and his partner were
badly shaken as they were
confronted by a man with a
gun who demanded Miller’s
wallet and portable phone.
The man then appeared to
see something behind Miller,
said “Oh shit,” and fled with¬
out robbing Miller’s compan¬
ion.
Miller, as chief deputy sec¬
retary of state, was in Los An¬
geles Friday for the signing of
emergency legislation that
would keep criminal defen¬
dants behind bars until earth¬
quake-impacted courts and
facilities are again function¬
ing. The new law provides
that criminal defendants may
be held for seven days before
arraignment instead of the
currently standard 72 hours.
Miller was also scheduled
to attend the Human Rights
Campaign Fund reception on
Saturday and to attend a se¬
ries of business meetings dur¬
ing the first part of the week.
“After the signing on Fri¬
day, we were near Wilshire
Boulevard, so we stopped off
to have a bite to eat,” Miller
said. He appeared to have a
philosophical attitude toward
the robbery. “The guy ap¬
proached us on the street on
our way to the restaurant —
he had a gun. He was a little
guy, but with that gun he
looked like John Wayne,” the
six-foot-plus Miller laughed.
“The good news is that we’re
safe. That’s all that matters.”
Ironically, in addition to
the $50 and the credit cards in
Miller’s wallet, he also lost his
concealed weapon permit.
“But Peter didn’t lose any¬
thing except a few years of
his mental health,” he
laughed, “so we were still
able to go out to dinner after
we made our report to
LAPD.”
Miller is a declared candi¬
date to succeed his boss and
mentor, Secretary of State
March Fong Eu, who is
awaiting a Clinton appoint¬
ment as ambassador to Mi¬
cronesia. Eu supports Miller’s
election bid, but he faces stiff
competition from Southern
California as Richard Woo,
losing contender for mayor of
Los Angeles, and Assembly-
member Gwen Moore, D-Los
Angeles, implicated in the leg¬
islature’s “Shrimpscam” deba¬
cle, are both considering run¬
ning for the office. Eu’s son is
also planning to run, but as a
Republican, and without his
mother’s endorsement. As-
semblymember Jackie Speier,
who was considered a strong'
contender, dropped out due
to the potentially adverse ef¬
fect and stress that campaign¬
ing would have on her preg¬
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Wanda Henson is exhausted.
Chronic back pain, stress and
unrelenting personal attacks
all take their toll at Camp
Sister Spirit, but she’s manag¬
ed to keep her sense of humor
intact. “We got another
threatening letter and we wre
finally assigned an F.B.I. agent.
On Jan. 20 when we came out
here I could barely keep a
straight face — his name is
‘Agent Lawless,”’ Wanda
laughed.
However, Wanda says, the
dilemma of Sheriff s Sergeant
Larry Dykes is even better.
“We’ve been having a prob¬
lem with a school bus that
stops at our gate and honks
the horn and then the kids all
open the windows and yell,
‘faggot, faggot, faggot,’ at us,”
Wanda said. “As educators
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good policy to encourage chil¬
dren to become bigots so we
reported these incidents to
the school board and to the
sheriffs department. When
the Sergeant came out to take
the report, I couldn’t resist do¬
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breathless I told him, ‘Why
Sergeant, y’all know we’re
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for so long I guess they forgot
about ‘dyke.’ It kinda shook
him up a little,” Wanda
chuckled.
Wanda reports that during
the past week, after a great
deal of negotiation, the U.S.
Department of Forestry came
out to the property to dig fire-
lanes and clear underbrush.
“We were able to get moved
up on the list because of the
bomb threats we received,”
she told the B.A.R. “We’ve
been hearing explosions
down by the gate - they’re
hard enough to knock books
off the shelves in the house,
and on January 22 our rain¬
bow flag was stolen. But the
local police minimize what
we tell them. Even the police
report on the dog which was
read at the first town meeting
was falsified when they
' claimed there were not bullet
holes in that poor animal —
and there were!”
ATF to the rescue?
The federal Department of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire¬
arms takes the incidents
much more seriously than the
local police, and has been as¬
signed to investigate bomb
threats and possible criminal
trespass on the women’s
property.
Wanda is the dark-haired,
feisty Henson, and Brenda is
the more placid of the two.
However, in the face of the
destruction of their dream of
having an educational retreat
for women who are poor, bat¬
tered, illiterate, and living on
a sub-poverty level, Brenda
tells the religious right big¬
ots,’’You kicked this soap box
up under my feet — now I’m
gonna take a stand on it.” The
women report that news of a
bomb threat to their home
was reported anonymously to
a local country-western radio
station. “Someone called in to
alert them that some people
were gonna bomb us, and the
F.B.I. was notified,” they said.
“We also filed papers with the
ATF invoking the Anti-Klan
Act of 1964, which states that
people can’t have meetings
for the unlawful purpose of
depriving citizens of their
constitutional rights. In addi¬
tion, government employees
like the sheriff and deputies
cannot participate in such
meetings,” the Hensons said.
The Hensons fight back in
little ways, unwilling to be
passive victims. Wanda, who
is a gadget freak, just got a
paint sprayer. “You know,
you just can’t get good laven¬
der paint in spray cans, so
this is going to work just fine.
If they keep messing with us
every tree on this place is go¬
ing to be lavender, believe
me. And please,” she added,
“ask people who can, to send
us rainbow flags — any size
rainbow flags are okay; I just
want to keep putting them up
all over the property.”
Send flags to: Camp Sister
Spirit, P.O. Box 12, Ovett,
MS 39464.
The Hensons are anxiously
awaiting the arrival of wom¬
en from the Bay Area Coali¬
tion Against Operation Res¬
cue (BACOAR) and their
counterparts from Sacramen¬
to, SACOAR. According to at¬
torney and clinic defender,
Alison Gude, the local women
are still trying to raise money
for transportation to Missis¬
sippi.'^ “We’re hoping to be
able to get down there within
two weeks,” Gude said, “but
we want to have 15 or 20 peo¬
ple going there on a rotating
basis. We desperately need
small or large donations of
money or frequent flyer
tickets.”
Send donations to RO. Box
19261. Sacramento, CA 95819.
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Killer of Indiana
Lesbian Gets Death
Penalty After All
United Press International
WASHINGTON - The
U.S. Supreme Court by a
vote of 7-2 has upheld the
death sentence of an Indiana
man who argued that because
a jury did not convict him of
“knowingly” killing someone,
he should not be executed.
Thomas Schiro confessed
to his counselor at an
Evansville, Indiana, halfway
house that he murdered Lau¬
ra Luebbehusen. Her body
was discovered in her
Evansville home on February
5, 1981.
According to court docu¬
ments, blood covered the
walls and the floor of the
crime scene. Luebbehusen
had been strangled, and a
coroner ruled that some of
her wounds had been caused
after death, including a hu¬
man bite on the thigh.
Schiro later told a county
jail inmate he had raped the
woman both before and after
killing her. He also told his
girlfriend he had gained ac¬
cess to the house by claiming
his car broke down, and had
raped Luebbehusen repeated¬
ly after she told him she was
a lesbian.
At the time, part of the le¬
gal Indiana definition of mur¬
der was to “knowingly or in¬
tentionally” kill someone else.
Schiro was charged with
“knowingly” killing the wom¬
an; murder during a rape; and
killing her while committing
deviate sexual conduct.
The jury filled in a guilty
verdict for murder during a
rape, but left the other
charges blank. Even though
the jury recommended
against the death penalty, the
judge sentenced Schiro to be
executed.
The murderer’s execution
date had been suspended
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National News
Klan Act Vs. Anti-Gays
Is This 118-Year-Old Law the Answer?
ST. FRANCIS LUTHERAN CHURCH
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152 Church Street, near Market
by Marghe Covino
When Wanda and Brenda
Henson picked a lawyer to
defend their rights at Camp
Sister Spirit in Ovett, Missis¬
sippi, they selected David
Daniels of Biloxi. Little did
they know they had hired the
real-life embodiment of Atti-
cus Finch of “To Kill A
Mockingbird.” In defense of
his clients, Daniels — a conser¬
vative, straight, Republican
Christian — has invoked the
criminal statute of the Anti-
Klan Act of 1875.
“In Section 242,” Daniels
told the B.A.R., “there is the
provision for a $10,000 fine
and ten years in prison. My
problem is getting the Justice
Department to understand
that the Act has no require¬
ment that there first be an ac¬
tion by the state in order for
it to go into effect. The Act
can be invoked by private cit¬
izens,” he said.
Daniels, who says he refus¬
es to be locked into the belief
that homosexuality is wrong
or sinful, says, “The Bible
says a lot of things, it can be
used to prove almost any¬
thing you want to say, but
that’s just not Christianity.”
Oddly, while this Mississippi
lawyer suddenly finds himself
a gay rights attorney, as more
and more gays and lesbians,
attracted by his ardent advo¬
cacy for his clients rights,
come to him for help; attor¬
neys for Lambda Legal De¬
fense in New York and Los
Angeles are reluctant to talk
about the Anti-Klan Act but
term the idea “intriguing.”
Both Beatrice Dohrn of the
Fund’s New York office and
Jeff Fong of the Los Angeles
office seem to think that the
Colorado court decision,
which found Amendment 2 to
be unconstitutional because it
would deny the ordinary
rights of citizenship to gays
and lesbians, would not be
sufficient to apply. For the
most part, in the face of eight
new state initiatives, gay legal
strategy seems to be one of
“wait and see” until some¬
thing gets to the U.S.
Supreme Court and the issue
can be addressed on a federal
level. Fong however, was
frank in his admission that he
is not familiar with the Klan
Act and was open to further
discussion on the subject.
Meanwhile, when Daniels
was interviewed he was clear¬
ly excited about the idea of
civil remedies to be found in
section 1985 of the Klan Act.
“It seems to me that the law
is pretty clear,” he said, “just
because there isn’t too much
case law to go on doesn’t
mean you can’t proceed.
There’s nothing to lose and
everything to gain. I’m using
the criminal section but that’s
not to say that at some point
the civil section wouldn’t ap¬
ply.”
Section 1985 (1) addresses
Preventing officer from per¬
forming duties; Section 1985
(2) deals with Obstructing jus¬
tice and Intimidating a party,
witness, or a juror; and the
pertinent Section 1985 (3)
deals with Depriving persons
of rights or privileges. It
reads:
“...[I]n any case of conspir¬
acy set forth in this section, if
one or more persons engaged
therein do, or cause to be
done, any act in furtherance
of the object of such conspir¬
acy, whereby another is in¬
jured in his person or proper¬
ty, or deprived of having and
exercising any right or privi¬
lege of a citizen of the United
States, the party so injured or
deprived may have an action
for the recovery of damages
occasioned by such injury or
deprivation, against any one
or more of the conspirators.”
In addition, Section 1986
clearly sets forth that any per¬
son who has knowledge of
any of the wrongs conspired
to be done as set forth in Sec¬
tion 1985 and who have the
power to prevent or aid in
preventing the commission of
same and neglects or refuses
to do is also liable to the in¬
jured party or parties for all
damages caused by that
wrongful act.
If the Klan Act, (which
does not mention race or col¬
or) were applied in Colorado
and invoked in Nevada,
Michigan, Florida, Washing¬
ton, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon,
Nebraska, and other states
where anti-gay initiatives
have been put forth to de¬
prive gay and lesbian citizens
of their civil rights (in some
instances, even the right to
petition government for relief)
it might cause the proponents
of the initiatives to think
twice about attempting to
take away the rights of gay
and lesbian citizens.
The reluctance of national
gay organizations to seriously
address, investigate, consider,
or even talk about this subject
is both puzzling and frighten¬
ing. The smart money should
go for for funding the
straight, conservative Repub¬
lican Christian guy in Missis¬
sippi — he just might give the
lesbian and gay community a
better shot at survival. ▼
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World News
British Lawmakers Try To
Separate the Men from the Boys
by Gavin Haycock
LONDON (UPI) - A cross¬
party delegation of British
lawmakers launched a cam¬
paign Wednesday, January 12,
to lower the age of consent
for gay men to 16 years of
age, an issue likely to divide
the government and pose a
new threat to Prime Minister
John Major’s push to reassert
traditional values.
Under British law, the age
of consent for homosexual
men is 21 years old — five
years older than for hetero¬
sexuals and lesbians.
The six-member group of
lawmakers, who are backed
by lobbyists from cultural and
business fields, hope to
change the age of consent
with an amendment to the
government’s new Criminal
Justice Bill, now in its second
reading in Parliament. A vote
on the issue is expected to be
held within three weeks.
Former Health Minister
Edwina Currie fired the first
shots in the campaign late
Tuesday during the second
reading of the crime bill. She
quoted 19th century dramatist
Oscar Wilde, who said: “You
cannot make men moral by
law.”
Lobbyists for Stonewall, a
group seeking equality for les¬
bian and gay men that is help¬
ing orchestrate the political
campaign, said Wednesday
they expected fierce debate
on the issue and a tough fight.
“We are optimistic, but it
is going to be a very close
race,” a Stonewall spokesman
said.
Homosexuality for men
over the age of 21 was legal¬
ized in Britain in 1967. At the
time, 21 was the age at which
people could vote. Within a
year the voting age was low¬
ered to 18.
The law affecting women
allows for consenting sexual
intercourse for those aged 16
and over. The discrepancy in
the law between men and
women dates back to 19th
century England when Queen
Victoria, backed by Britain’s
ruling classes, refused to ac¬
knowledge that lesbianism
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protest banner at the State Opening of Parliament.
Supporters for a reduction
in the age of consent for ho¬
mosexuals say Britain has the
highest age of consent in Eu¬
rope.
They argue that balancing
the age with that of hetero¬
sexuals will make it easier for
gay men to accept their sexu¬
ality and seek informed ad¬
vice. The also say it will
strengthen individual respon¬
sibility, extend individual
freedom, and take the crimi¬
nal law out of the area of per¬
sonal morality.
Some government politi¬
cians disagree and say any
law change will unhinge the
government’s “back to basics”
political program, which em¬
phasizes traditional values.
“When you have young
vulnerable 16-year-old boys
being pressurized by un¬
scrupulous older men — they
need protecting,” said Conser¬
vative Party lawmaker Olga
Maitland.
“Teenagers aren’t always
certain of their own sexuali¬
ty,” she told reporters. “If
Oscar Wilde, who was aware
of the attractions of younger
men, was quoted in Britain's
age of consent debate: "You
cannot make men moral by
law."
they are pressurized to take
part in a homosexual act and
it’s not their nature you can
have a very disturbed young
person, a very troubled young
person.” ▼
Brit Docs Say: Let
16-Year-01ds Be Gay
by Simona de Logu
LONDON (UPI) - The
British Medical Association,
expressing concern about
HIV transmission among
teenage males, announced
Thursday, January 13, it was
endorsing a campaign to low¬
er the age of homosexual con¬
sent to 16 in hopes of improv¬
ing sexual health counseling
for young males.
A group of lawmakers
launched the campaign
Wednesday to lower the age
of consent to 16 from the cur¬
rent 21. The age of consent
for heterosexuals is currently
16, and lesbians are covered
by the same laws because
Victorian-era lawmakers re¬
fused to believe they existed
and wrote no laws to cover
them. [See accompanying sto¬
ry. 1
“What we are most con-
cerned about is HIV,” said Dr.
Fleur Fasher, head of the
medical association’s ethics
and science division. “Because
of the state of the law, it is
difficult for health education,
health promotion, to be made
available [to teenage males].”
Medical association doctors
said the decriminalization of
homosexuality between ages
16 and 21 would allow doc¬
tors and health authorities to
provide more effective health
care, health education and
counseling for homosexuals
in that age group.
The British Medical Asso¬
ciation council voted almost
unanimously Wednesday
night to recommend the gov¬
ernment lower the age of con¬
sent to 16.
In taking the action, the
council noted that unsafe sex¬
ual behavior and HIV infec¬
tion have both increased
among homosexual men after
a period of decline. The coun¬
cil noted that recent figures
for new HIV transmissions
show that younger males are
disproportionately affected.
A statement said the coun¬
cil is concerned that the “cur¬
rent criminalization of homo¬
sexual activity inhibits effec¬
tive health education and
health care.”
The council based its deci¬
sion on a survey by the Board
of Science and Education.
The survey showed the aver¬
age age for the first homosex¬
ual encounter is 15.7 years. It
also showed that homosexual
orientation, which is estab¬
lished before puberty, leads
to homosexual behavior and
not vice versa.
The council concluded
from this that lowering the
age of consent to 16 would be
unlikely to affect the number
of men engaging in homosex¬
ual activity, either in general
or within specific age groups.
There was no convincing
medical reason against lower¬
ing the age of consent for ho¬
mosexuals to 16, the council
said, but to do so would yield
positive health benefits. ▼
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Philadelphia
(Continued from page 1)
the case. Les Fagen, of Paul
Weiss Rifkind Wharton &
Garrison, represented Baker
& McKenzie in the hearings.
“The firm did not fire
Bowers because of his condi¬
tion, it fired him on the mer¬
its of performance,” says Fa¬
gen.
The judge in the case dis¬
agreed. According to testimo¬
ny, Bowers’s performance
was strong during his brief
tenure with the firm, and his
salary increased by more than
50 percent in his two years
with Baker & McKenzie. As
late as May, 1986, the firm re¬
viewed Bowers’s performance
and chose to retain him. But
at the July, 1986, meeting
where the partners voted to
terminate Bowers’s employ¬
ment, his work performance
was never even reviewed, as
was standard firm procedure
for attorneys facing possible
termination. Bowers’s imme¬
diate supervisor protested the
decision to fire him, arguing
that he was vital to the firm;
he succeeded only in delaying
the termination by a few
months. By this point, Bow¬
ers’s facial lesions were se¬
vere.
As the Division of Human
Rights Executive Deputy
Commissioner Lynne Weikart
wrote in the decision: “There
is no evidence to indicate
[Bowers’s] work performance
deteriorated between the
May, 1986, evaluation meeting
and July, 1986. However, the
record shows that during this
period [Bowers’s] facial le¬
sions progressively wors¬
ened.”
“The decision turns on a
finding by the Division that
the firm knew of Bowers’s
condition at the time it termi¬
nated him. The evidence does
not show that,” Fagen argues.
“He certainly did not disclose
it.
“There’s no debate here
that under the rules, you’re
not supposed to discriminate
against somebody because
they have AIDS,” Fagen con¬
tinues. “That’s not an issue,
and there’s no precedent¬
breaking thing about that.”
Felber does not seem sur¬
prised by Fagen’s remarks.
“That position is obviously
one he has to take, but it’s not
going to carry the day,” says
Felber. “They chose in de¬
fending this case to say that
they never perceived or ob¬
served any manifestation of
any illness, and therefore
they didn’t know he had
AIDS, and therefore they
didn’t discriminate against
him. They called almost ev¬
ery partner, associate, and
staff person in the firm, in ex¬
cess of 65 witnesses. They all
lock-step testified that they
never saw anything wrong
with Geoffrey. The problem
with that defense is that it did
not take into consideration
the objective, non-biased testi¬
mony of photographs taken at
the time, or of doctors whose
notes reflect what he looked
like.”
By the time he was dis¬
missed, Bowers had K.S. le¬
sions clearly visible on his
face, according to the testimo¬
ny of his doctors. But Baker
& McKenzie’s witnesses all
testified that they had not no¬
ticed.
“When you take the objec¬
tive, non-biased testimony of
what he looked like at the
time and juxtapose it on all
these witnesses who came in
like robots and said ‘We never
saw anything,”’ says Felber, “I
think the judge and the com¬
missioner said that if you’re
making this a credibility con¬
test, we find that your position
is unbelievable, and since you
apparently lied about all of
this, you’re also lying about
the reason for his firing.”
An important factor in the
case was the nature of Bow¬
ers’s work environment. Baker
& McKenzie maintained that
personal lives were not central
to the office atmosphere, and
that Bowers concealed his ho¬
mosexuality and his condition
from his workmates. But here
again, the judge disagreed.
Bowers’s attorneys argued
that the work environment at
Baker & McKenzie was in¬
deed a social one, complete
with personal relationships
and office gossip. Both Bow¬
ers’s homosexuality and his
AIDS were topics for office ru¬
mors, they claimed, and the
firm’s contention that they had
never considered the possibil¬
ity that Bowers might have
AIDS rings false. Bowers’s
sexual orientation played an
important role in the hearings.
“The knowldege of his sex¬
ual orientation gave people a
greater ability to perceive
what the manifestation of his
illness was,” says Felber.
The late Geoffrey Bowers,
whose award in an AIDS dis¬
crimination suit set a record.
Baker & McKenzie is ap¬
pealing the case to a court of
law, arguing that the facts of
the case do not support the de¬
cision. A judge will review the
testimony in the Division hear¬
ing records — some 6,000 pages
in three dozen volumes — and
determine whether the deci¬
sion is sustainable.
The appeal may also alter
the amount of damages award¬
ed, and Fagen stresses that
even if the decision is not
overturned, he feels the award
should be lessened. “This dam¬
age award is completely exces¬
sive,” he argues. “There’s no
basis for that kind of award in
precedent.”
Not so, claims Margarita
Rosa, Commissioner for the
State of New York Division of
Human Rights. An award of
half a million dollars is, in fact,
in line with previous mental
anguish awards the Division
has meted out.
“In damages there’s more
room for courts to differ with
the agency. But we’ve had
very large compensatory
awards sustained in the past. It
is our hope that this one will
be upheld as well, but that re¬
mains to be seen,” says Rosa.
By New York state law,
Baker & McKenzie must place
the entire settlement — in ex¬
cess of $600,000 including back
pay — in escrow before pro¬
ceeding with the appeal. The
money will earn interest in the
interim, and if the award is
upheld in court, it will be paid
immediately to Bowers’s es¬
tate.
Rosa says that Bowers’s
case is not unique, but it was
somewhat groundbreaking
when it began seven years
ago.
“It’s not that dramatically
new at this point in time,” she
says. “It may have been when
the case was first filed. It was
one of the first few that came
to trial in our agency, if not
the first, that raised this issue
very squarely.”
Over the years, many more
AIDS discrimination suits
have been filed with the Divi¬
sion, but Rosa puts a positive
spin on the situation by noting
that while lawsuits are still on
the rise, large businesses in
particular have been changing
policies and treating people
with HIV more reasonably
than they had a few years
back. Businesses with the re¬
sources seem to be sensitizing
their employees and monitor¬
ing their own behavior around
AIDS.
“I like to err on the hopeful
side,” says Rosa. “There has
been a growing understanding
that one can be subject to ex¬
tensive liabilities. It behooves
employers to invest some re¬
sources in educating them¬
selves and their staffs. We
think this kind of discrimina¬
tion has been eliminated —
we’re far from that. But at
least there are some hopeful
signs that eventually the dis¬
crimination, irrational conduct
associated with fears about
AIDS, will diminish signifi¬
cantly.”
Certainly public awareness
of AIDS as a civil rights issue
is climbing with the sudden
success of Philadelphia. In
the film, Tom Hanks is dis¬
missed from a prestigious law
firm after he develops K.S. le¬
sions on his face. As in this
case, the firm claims ignorance
of his condition. The firm also
claims poor performance as
the reason for terminating the
employee, despite a lack of ev¬
idence to support the claim.
Despite the undeniable
similarities of Bowers’s case to
the story in Philadelphia, Fa¬
gen cautions against making
easy comparisons.
“This case has nothing to
do with the story presented in
Philadelphia in terms of
what this firm knew, what this
firm was doing, and how this
firm acted,” he insists. “The
people who wrote the movie
may well have been inspired
by this story. I don’t know.
‘‘Everybody feels very
strongly about how wrong it is
to discriminate against people
with this condition,” he says. “I
don’t think that’s in dispute or
debate. The problem is that
each case has to be evaluated
on the facts, and you have to
avoid becoming influenced by
sympathy or Hollywood mo¬
tion picture simplicity.”
This is perhaps the only
point on which both sides can
agree. Felber too downplays
the parallels to the movie.
“At this point we really
want to get the message out
about AIDS discrimination,”
he says, “Philadelphia is a
Hollywood movie.”
The excitement for Felber
was not in the Hollywood dra¬
ma and the media spotlight.
The thrill was winning this
landmark case on behalf of his
personal friend, and emerging
victorious over a well-respect¬
ed and formidable opponent.
“It’s also a David and Go¬
liath thing,” says Felber. “If
you have the truth and you
have the facts, sometimes
fighting against a giant like
that is very satisfying. It’s cer¬
tainly nerve-racking. But we
survived, and though delayed,
justice has been rendered.” ▼
National News
Bowers Estate Files Suit;
Players Respond-Sort Of
Whose
Story
Is It?
by Jim Provenzano
As critics debate the mer¬
its of Philadelphia, and as gay
and AIDS organizations raise
funds with benefit screenings
across the country, the estate
of Geoffrey Bowers has filed
a lawsuit claiming the film is
based on his life.
On January 31, the firm of
Balsam & Felber, attorneys
for Bowers’s estate and fami¬
ly, filed an action in U.S. Dis¬
trict Court for the Southern
District of New York against
Hollywood producer Scott
Rudin, TriStar Pictures, Inc.,
and the creators of Philadel¬
phia, maintaining the film
was substantially based on in¬
formation provided by them
under the agreement that
they would be acknowledged
and compensated. They ask
for damages of $10 million.
In a Tuesday, February 1
announcement at the New
York offices of Balsam & Fel¬
ber, the lawyers claimed that
in 1988, while Bowers was su¬
ing his former employers
[see accompanying article, “A
Real Philadelphia Story.”],
Rudin contacted Balsam &
Felber and said he was inter¬
ested in making a movie
about AIDS based upon Bow¬
ers’s story. They claim that
Rudin agreed to compensate
and acknowledge Bowers’s es¬
tate, family, and attorneys.
According to Lloyd P.
Trufelman of Trylon Commu¬
nications, the public relations
firm handling the publicity
around this case for Balsam
& Felber, after several meet¬
ings and telephone conversa¬
tions in which details of Bow¬
ers’s story were provided,
Rudin engaged Ron Nyswan-
er to write a screenplay based
upon Bowers’s story. Nyswan-
er, who is gay, is credited as
the writer of Philadelphia.
Rudin thereafter sold his
rights to Bowers’s story to
Orion Pictures, where it went
into development under Ex¬
ecutive Vice President Marc
Platt. Platt is currently presi¬
dent of TriStar Pictures,
which is owned by Sony Pic¬
tures Entertainment. In De¬
cember 1991, TriStar ac¬
quired Orion’s rights to.
Bowers’s story in bankruptcy
court.
After reading articles in
1992 about a movie being
made by TriStar about a
lawyer fired for having AIDS
(then called Probable Cause),
Balsam & Felber contacted
Rudin. Rudin acknowledged
that the movie was based
upon the Bowers story, the
rights to which he had sold,
and referred them to Platt.
Bowers’s attorneys in¬
formed Platt of the history of
the relationship between the
plaintiffs, Rudin, Nyswaner
and TriStar, and noted that
the information obtained by
Rudin formed a substantial
basis for the content and
structure of the movie. Ac¬
cording to Trufelman, “Key
scenes and dialogue taken
from Bowers’s story which
appeared in Philadelphia are
documented in detail in the
20-page complaint.” Platt re¬
portedly never responded to
Bowers’s attorneys, ignored
requests for information, and
avoided any further discus¬
sions with them.
Bowers’s attorneys say
Philadelphia’s content is
“wholly unauthorized” and
that it “constitutes a breach of
contract, misappropriation of
confidential and proprietary
information, a violation of
federal law [prohibiting false
designation of origin and de¬
ceptive trade practices] and
unjust enrichment.”
According to Trufelman,
the long wait was at the deci¬
sion of Bowers’s mother, who
only saw the film a few
weeks ago, then gave the go-
ahead for the lawsuit. Up to
then, the family’s concerns
had been with the impending
results of their lawsuit against
Bowers’s former employer.
Philadelphia director
Jonathan Demme — in the
dark?
“Someone with linkage to
TriStar approached the fami¬
ly. That’s the very clear dif¬
ference.”
That linkage is Scott
Rudin, a gay producer who
brought screenwriter Ron
Nyswaner into the picture.
Rudin and Nyswaner refused
to comment by press time, de¬
spite repeated requests by the
B.A.R.
Yet despite the possible
believability of the attorneys’
claims, up until even last
week (see other story), Bal¬
sam & Felber denied any
connection between the film
and the Bowers case.
Trufelman explains: “We
had known all along that it
may have something to do
with it. If anybody pushed on
the linkage, we had to be
diplomatic about it.” And al¬
though the attorneys are ask¬
ing for ten million dollars,
they do not consider the mon¬
ey to be the primary goal.
“The family would like to see
the film dedicated to the
memory of Geoffrey Bowers
or at least get some acknowl¬
edgment,” he said.
If Philadelphia is making
inroads, the attorneys argue,
then why can’t they acknowl¬
edge a real-life case of AIDS
discrimination for what it
may be, the very source of
their very financially success¬
ful film? Said Trufelman,
“One of the brothers said
‘They took my brother’s sto¬
ry.’”
Will the producers ac¬
knowledge that? Or will Tom
Hanks, and possibly Nyswan¬
er and Demme, step up to the
podium and accept Oscars for
a story stolen from a dead
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Sony, which owns TriStar,
denies any wrongdoing, but it
also denies even receiving the
documents serving them with
the lawsuit. As of February 1,
Trufelman said the docu¬
ments had been sent to Sony
Pictures by Federal Express.
Ed Russell, senior vict
president of Publicity and
Promotion for Los Angeles-
based Sony Pictures, denied
Balsam & Felber’s claims
with this press statement: “Al¬
though we have not been
served with this lawsuit, the
film Philadelphia is not the
story of Geoffrey Bowers.
Philadelphia is a fictional sto¬
ry which addresses a regretta¬
ble recurring theme of AIDS
discrimination in this coun¬
try.” He said that “TriStar
Pictures is very proud of
Philadelphia. There is no
merit to the lawsuit, and we
are confident we will be vin¬
dicated in this matter.”
The estate of Geoffrey
Bowers obviously disagrees,
although Trufelman said that
he was unsure of the trail of
culpability — who knew
where the story came from —
or even whether that included
director Jonathan Demme
and star Tom Hanks.
“Maybe Demme was in the
dark,” he said, but “clearly
something was sold to Orion.
Trufelman said that his
clients have specific claims re¬
garding their case. “There are
certain scenes from the movie
that mirror Bowers’s story,”
he said. “Bowers was asked in
court to show his KS lesions.
The last weekend before
Bowers died he had a party.
Bowers lived in a loft. There
are too many instances which
match the Bowers case.”
Trufelman stressed that it
was not as if the estate mere¬
ly claimed their story was tak¬
en from newspaper articles or
other public information.
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by Dan Medynski
Researchers have
reported identification
of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (TB) gene
responsible for drug
resistance to the “front
line” anti-TB drug iso-
niazid (INH). The dis¬
covery, published in
the January 14th issue
of Science magazine,
was reported by a
team of researchers
led by Dr. William Ja¬
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stein Medical College
in New York. The
news was greeted
warmly by public
health officials, who
expressed hope that
the new discovery will
quickly lead to the de¬
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— and relieve public concern
that the TB epidemic cannot
be controlled, in the face of
strains of TB resistant to
more than one drug.
The discovery may also
prove significant in the devel¬
opment of new drugs against
another microorganism — My¬
cobacterium avium complex
(MAC) — which is often lethal
to individuals suffering from
late stages of the AIDS syn¬
drome.
Under normal circum¬
stances, 96-98 percent of indi¬
viduals infected with TB can
be cured by adhering to the
standard short-course chemo¬
therapeutic regimen — INH,
rifampin, and pyrazinamide.
Cure rates appear to be simi¬
lar in HIV-seropositive indi¬
viduals. But the odds of sur¬
vival decrease for individuals
infected with strains of TB re¬
sistant to two or more drugs;
infection by these strains is
lethal in 40-60 percent of all
cases.
AIDS-stricken individuals
infected by resistant strains of
TB are 1.7 times more likely
to die — 80 percent vs. 47 per¬
cent — than those infected by
drug-susceptible organisms,
and the time from diagnosis
to death is dramatically short¬
ened.
In 1991, 333 individuals in
San Francisco were diag¬
nosed with TB; 20 percent
were HIV-positive. In New
York, 33 percent of the indi¬
viduals infected with TB
were resistant to at least one
drug; 19 percent were found
to be resistant to both INH
and rifampin.
Isolating the drug targets
Isoniazid was synthesized
in 1912, but wasn’t used as a
chemotherapeutic agent until
40 years later, when it be¬
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of a successful anti-TB drug
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Health News
Some things are better...
Elders Educates Senators about
Adolescent Sexuality, Health Needs
Latina lesbian Supe Susan Leal (left) poses with the popular
and controversial surgeon general. Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Sur¬
geon General Joycelyn Elders
urged Congress Wednesday,
January 26, to include a com¬
prehensive school health edu¬
cation program and school-
based health care services in
the health care reform plan
they draft.
Testifying before a House
Education and Labor subcom¬
mittee, Elders said President
Clinton’s health care reform
plan — one of many Congress
will consider — would allow
schools to provide health care
to poor children and adoles¬
cents.
Elders, citing congression¬
al statistics, said adolescents
make up the most medically
underserved age group in the
United States. The presi¬
dent’s Health Security Act
would provide federal assis¬
tance to schools or communi¬
ties with a high rate of pover¬
ty or other risk factors, in¬
cluding drug abuse, she said.
Congress also should pass
a health care reform plan pro¬
viding comprehensive health
care education, she said, not¬
ing only about half of the na¬
tion’s ninth grade students,
and less than five percent of
high school juniors and se¬
niors, receive any health edu¬
cation at school.
“For children and adoles¬
cents, the leading health prob¬
lems are from causes that are
largely preventable: injuries —
both violent and unintention¬
al — unintended pregnancies,
STDs [sexually-transmitted
diseases] including AIDS, and
substance abuse,” she said.
The Education and Labor
Committee is one of three
House committees (including
Ways and Means and Energy
and Commerce) with jurisdic¬
tion over health care reform.
There are other, non-finan-
cial barriers, however, that
also affect adolescents, she
said, including concerns about
confidentiality, culture or eth¬
nic barriers, and general ap¬
prehension about discussing
health problems — or denial
that a problem exists.
The former secretary of
health for Arkansas, Elders
said communities there wide¬
ly accepted her school-based
clinic idea. The difficulty, she
said, was agreeing on the
kind of services the clinics
should provide, including con¬
dom distribution for AIDS
and pregnancy prevention.
“We found out that once a
school went through the pro¬
cess of applying for a clinic
and got their clinic on site,
they could see the important
needs the clinic fulfilled for
their students,” she said.
The president’s plan would
authorize $100 million begin¬
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sibility of legalizing drugs as
a way to fight crime. Presi¬
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his presidential campaign he
opposed the idea of legalizing
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by Mark Langford
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) -
Surgeon General Joycelyn El¬
ders said Friday, January 21,
the government has no plans
to pull television ads encour¬
aging the use of condoms,
and she defended federal
health care reform proposals
that would cover abortions.
Elders said the teaching of
sexual abstinence alone is not
enough to protect young peo¬
ple from unwanted pregnan¬
cies, AIDS, and other sexual¬
ly transmitted diseases.
“We all want our children
to be abstinent. We all want
to teach our children absti¬
nence,” she said. “But you
can’t walk in there and give
an abstinence lecture. You’ve
got to start early to [teach]
children how to feel good
about themselves, teaching
them how to make decisions,
teaching them about alcohol,
drugs, and AIDS. It has to be
comprehensive. I don’t be¬
lieve you can teach just a sex
class.”
Appearing at a news con¬
ference at the First United
Methodist Church, Elders
said there was “absolutely no
data whatsoever” that shows
promiscuity results from
teaching young people about
condom use. She added that
some studies even show that
it has led to the postpone¬
ment of sexual activity.
Elders also said the ads
are less sensational than
many other things that chil¬
dren can see on national tele¬
vision at almost any time.
“We have no intention of
pulling the condom ads,” she
said. “Unless you have a dif¬
ferent kind of TV in Austin
than I have in Washington,
D.C., there’s everything on
TV, and those condom ads
look like, in fact, they’re al¬
most better than Saturday
morning comics.”
Elders, who was greeted
by a handful of anti-abortion
protesters at the opening of a
new Planned Parenthood fa¬
cility, also defended national
health care reform proposals
that will cover abortions.
“Reproductive health is a
part of the president’s health
care plan,” she said.
Elders was asked how she
would respond to people who
oppose abortion and who
may object to paying into a
health care system that funds
the procedure.
“I object to spending $33
million an hour building
bombers that we don’t need. I
object to all the war and
killing,” she said. “So there
are a lot of things I object to
that we spend our money for.
“We really spend very lit¬
tle on abortion. We spend $26
billion a year [on welfare]
keeping them poor, ignorant
and slaves at a time when we
don’t need any more slaves.
So as far as I’m concerned,
why should I continue to do
that?”V
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Obituaries
Scott K. Boin
Sept. 18, 1962-Jan. 21, 1994
Scott is at peace now after a long,
brave battle with
AIDS. His winn¬
ing smile and
bright blue eyes
will be with us
always. At age
31, Scott leaves
on earth his
partner-in-life,
Mark Manz; and
his parents, Karl
and Ruth Boin;
brother, Michael;
and a lot of loving and caring friends in
California, Maryland and Wisconsin.
“God looked around his garden and
found an empty space. He then looked
upon the earth and saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you to rest.
God’s garden must be beautiful; he
always takes the best.
“He knew that you were suffering. He
knew you were in pain. He knew that
you would never get well on earth
again. He saw the road was rough. The
hills hard to climb. So he closed your
weary eyelids and whispered, ‘Peace be
thine.’
“It broke our hearts to lose you, but
you don’t go alone. For part of us went
with you, the day God called you home.”
I love you, Schnookums. You’ll
always be with me.
A memorial will be held at Mark and
Scott’s home on Feb. 12,1994, from 1 to
4 p.m. For more information please call
Mark at 824-8307.
In lieu of flowers, please send dona¬
tions in memory of Scott Boin to:
American Foundation for AIDS
Research, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, CA 90036-5032. Also, please
add: notify Mark Manz and address. ▼
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Richard D. Calmbacher
April 14, 1947-Jan. 9, 1994
There is a man I know who has a way
ggof illuminating
III lives by merely
| being in them.
I On Sunday, Jan-
I uary 9, due to
I complications
I from AIDS, that
I man, Richard
I Calmbacher, left
world of
§ friends and lov-
| ed ones to join
1 those friends he
had helped and cared for over the years.
Richard touched the lives of many
people in many different ways — from
his participation in a number of
organizations in San Jose including Gay
Pride Celebration, Oktoberfest, Mayor’s
Council, and San Jose Tavern Guild to
his legendary bar parties as manager of
the Boot Rack and Main Street. As a
friendly face behind the bar, he was
always there to talk with old friends and
make newcomers feel as if they had
known him forever. His ability to bring
out the best in everyone and make you
laugh will always be remembered. His
famous lines: “Men are dirt” and
“Where’s my husband?” will ring in our
ears forever.
He was born in Wheeling, West
Virginia, and spent time in many dif¬
ferent parts of the country. His favorite
places that he called home were New
Orleans and San Jose. In a way, New
Orleans typifies the person and the
spirit that was Richard. Fun-loving,
wild, crazy, always open, but full of love.
Richard leaves behind his loving and
understanding mother, Lillian; his
brother, Walt; and many nieces and
nephews, as well as his many friends.
For all of us left, we will miss you great¬
ly, but being a part of your life and hav¬
ing your memory as a part of ours will
make us all a little better off.
At his request, no formal memorial
service will be held, but a celebration
of Richard’s life will be held on Sunday,
February 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the 641 Club
in San Jose. Donations in his name may
be given to the San Jose Gay Pride
Celebration at 45 N. 1st St., Box 89, San
Jose, CA 95113. V
Abel Chavez
1941-1994
Abel left us on January 29,1994, after
a brave, stub¬
born struggle
with KS and
lymphoma. He
is survived by
his loving sister,
Martha Perez,
and his brothers,
Tony and Abe.
Highly decora¬
ted in the Navy,
Abel will even¬
tually rest in the
National Cemetery with full honors.
Rest in peace, Abel. We all miss you,
especially Penny. V
Charles Burns Emerson
("Chuck")
Feb. 20, 1950-Jan. 24, 1994
Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, on
February 20, 1950, and raised in
Houston, Texas, Chuck died Monday,
January 24, 1994, in his treasured San
Francisco home in the company of his
beloved sister, Ann Elliot Emerson, and
nephews, Will and Charlie McBride,
and close friends.
Chuck graduated from The Fountain
Valley School in Colorado Springs, Col¬
orado, and received his BA from The
University of Redlands. He lived in Los
Angeles before moving to San Fran¬
cisco in 1976. He had been a top real
estate agent in this city, most notably
and happily for the past 10 years with
Hartford Properties. He also worked as
a writer, publishing travel pieces in
various newspapers and magazines.
Chuck was generous with his energy
and resources both with friends and
family, and to various organizations, in¬
cluding Project Open Hand, Big
Brothers, Big Sisters and the AIDS
Hotline. His great humor, style and
generosity will be sorely missed by his
family and devoted friends.
There will be a celebration of Chuck’s
life on Saturday, February 5, at 1:30 p.m.
at the San Francisco Zen Center, 300
Page St. Following his wishes, Chuck’s
family requests that in lieu of flowers,
contributions be made in his name to
the American Cancer Society of San
Francisco, 235 Montgomery St., Suite
320, San Francisco, CA 94104. ▼
Paul Grappe
Aug. 16, 1954-Jan. 15, 1994
My intimate companion of 12 years
;sed away ac-
1 cidentally at his
I (Duboce Triangle)
I home. Paul mov-
I ed to San Fran-
I cisco in 1976
I from Louisana,
* where he is sur-
| vived by his lov-
■ ing mother, Bar-
I bara, and 12
sisters and
,,//$■ brothers.
An admirer of personalities such as
Patti Smith, Etta James, Edith Massey,
and Janis (Joplin), he was, like them, one
of those rare larger-than-life beings one
meets once in a lifetime.
Paul was a professionally trained,
highly accomplished string bassist; he
performed and recorded with groups
from New Orleans to San Francisco, in¬
cluding a stint on Saturday Night Live.
His varied talents led to a career in
advertising at Macy’s and most recent¬
ly at the Oakland Post.
Paul will be missed by many, in¬
cluding Ben and several employees of
the Stud Bar, his favorite place to par¬
ty, and other friends including Rod.
I will never forget Paul’s smile, his
laugh, his love and his individuality. I
miss him so much. Paul, your spirit will
Lawrence Payne
Sept. 20, 1952 - Jan. 29, 1994
On Saturday, January 29, 1994, the
man with whom I entered the world
with over 41 years ago, my twin,
Lawrence, succumbed to AIDS.
Lawrence was a very special and uni¬
que individual. He is survived by his
soulmate and partner in life, Tim
Bollinger; by myself, his twin, Lon¬
nie; and by our family, Joel, Chris,
Ron and Marcus.
Lawrence’s life consisted of many
unique experiences that he shared with a variety of people.
His special love of music and dance was the foundation for
many a friendship and bonding within our community. As this
disease chipped away at his life, his knowledge of living with
AIDS increased. He gladly shared this knowledge with others
afflicted with this disease.
We would like to thank the wonderful staff and volunteers
at Ralph K. Davies and at Hospice by the Bay for the special
kindness given Lawrence. A very special thank you to Lisa,
his doctor, and Maurice, his Hospice by the Bay nurse. Their
care and concern helped make my brother’s departure a
gentler experience.
We, the family of Lawrence, will celebrate his life with a
private remembrance.
Donations may be made in Lawrence’s name to Hospice by
the Bay. T
always remain with me — sometimes
with great joy, other times with great
sorrow. We will always be together. I
love you — Gene. V
Robert (Bobby) Hawthorn
January 8, 1994
Robert (Bobby) Hawthorn moved
from Pittsburgh,
Penn., to reside
here in 1975.
Robert passed
away on January
8, 1994, at his
home on Noe
Street in the
ceaseless care of
his niece, Marie,
and friends, Em¬
mett and Linda.
In the last
moments of Robert’s life, his brothers,
Jesse and William, and their wives came
from the East Coast to be with him. His
nephews, Joey, Robert (his namesake)
and Joshua, brought their love for their
Uncle Butch to his bedside, as well as
their mother, Marie, who Robert helped
raise and who shared many of his
thoughts.
Robert leaves many friends in this
world who will always remember him
for his infectious enthusiasm. His career
took him from hair salons in the ’70s
and ’80s to the front reception desk at
Petit and Martin, until his disability
caused him to step aside in 1992. He also
volunteered his considerable talents to
the Young Turks Theatre group as a
hair designer, in addition to offering his
services for the San Francisco AIDS
Walk and Dance-a-Thon.
In accordance with Robert’s last
wishes, a celebration of his life will take
place on Saturday, February 19, at the
Unitarian Church at noon. ▼
Marius Houtman
May 9,1939-Jan. 23,1994
At 10 am. on January 23, Marius died
at Sequoia Hos¬
pital in Red¬
wood City of
complications
associated with
AIDS. Born in
Rotterdam in the
Netherlands,
Marius lived in
Montreal for
many years be¬
fore moving to
Mexico City. He
returned to Canada for a few years and
in 1984 moved to the Bay Area. He
worked in accounting for Providence
Hospital in Oakland and had been
working for The Sharper Image before
going on disability.
He is survived by his lover of 14 years,
Gaetan Rouleau; his parents; brothers,
Kees, Henk and Gerard living in
Holland; John in Montreal; and many
dear and loving friends.
Marius loved art, music and nature.
He valued both the simple and the ec¬
centric, but above all, Marius respected
and loved life. We will all miss his high
degree of integrity, his sense of humor
and honesty. His talent for decorating
was unquestionable, and all of us who
knew him know that by now he has
already started embellishing his new
home.
Marius, our lives will never be the
same without you. My only consolation
is that one day I will join you forever.
Be at peace, for I will love you always.
All donations should be sent to Pro¬
ject Open Hand, 2720 17th Street, SF
94110. ▼
Joseph "Mike" Rogers
January 7, 1994
Our special friend Mike died on
January 7, sur¬
rounded by his
loving family in
Colorado
Springs, after a
mercifully brief
battle with the
AIDS virus.
During Mike’s
12 years in the
dty, he worked
at the Badlands
bar as a barten¬
der, but is best known as the owner of
SF Floormaster, a floor refinishing
company he ran until his death.
He will be remembered for his quick
wit, dashing good looks, easy smile, and
love of San Francisco. The many
friends he leaves behind will miss this
very special soul.
You made life special in a very special
place. God bless and see you in the fun¬
ny papers. ▼
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 22
Obituaries
Denis Patrick
Heatherington
Feb. 27, 1955-Jan. 27,1994
Born in McKeesport, Penn., Denis
knew at an early age he wanted to pur¬
sue his dreams
elsewhere.
After receiv¬
ing his B.A. from
Clarion Univer¬
sity, he moved to
Denver, Colo.,
where his vast
knowledge in
sound and light¬
ing techniques
earned him the
nickname “Wiz¬
ard” from his peers.
Pursuing the nightclub circuit, he
worked side by side with such notables
as Tina Turner, the Fifth Dimension
and Bill Cosby, to name a few.
Denis moved to San Francisco in the
early ’80s, where he turned a hobby into
a new career, working as a chef in many
notable San Francisco restaurants over
the next 13 years.
In 1984 Denis met the love of his life,
Poul-Kevin Beauford, whom he main¬
tained a friendship with until his death.
Survivors include his mother, Anna
Mae; three sisters, Dolores, June, and
Pat; and one brother, Ray. Denis was
preceded in death by his father, Rea.
Denis also leaves an extended fami¬
ly: Jim and John, Garth, David, and, of
course, Poul-Kevin.
Denis will be buried in McKeesport,
Penn., next to his beloved grandfather
at a later date. For more information
contact Bruce Kraus at 8614076. God
speed, dear friend! ▼
Brian Lee Korneke
March 16,1953-Jan. 24,1994
On Monday, January 24, our dear
friend Brian
read the last
lines from his
own personal
play. AIDS com¬
plications took
him to a better
place. Born on
March 16, 1953,
in St.
Petersburg,
Florida, Brian
was a longtime
resident of San Francisco. Brian work¬
ed for Wells Fargo and did a number of
radio plays for a Berkeley radio station.
He read extensively and everyone knew
him as a “party person.” Brian is sur¬
vived by his sister, Terry Stefaniak of
Aurora, Colorado, and close friend of 13
years, Freddie (Cakes) Tercero of San
Francisco. Freddie and another friend,
Kevin McCarthy of San Francisco, will
keep a promise and see that Brian’s
ashes are scattered on the Bay. So long,
dear friend. We will miss you. ▼
James Calvin Kencht
(aka Motorcycle Jimmy)
Oct. 8,1959-Oct. 13,1993
Bang! That was the sound of Jimmy
passing into the
white light, stan¬
ding on the seat
of his K-Z1000
doing 155 mph
on the Bay
Bridge. Bang,
baby, bang!
Jimmy left us
just after his 34th
birthday. It was
important to Jim¬
my to return to
New York to renew family ties and to
be with his loved ones.
Jimmy was also a jack of all trades. He
could fix anything — cars, motorcycles,
you name it.
He was a topnotch paramedic, as well
as a bartender at the Pendulum and the
N-Touch. His temper and attitude could
snap nails, but his heart was as big as
the whole Bay Area and then some.
Patrons of the Bear and N-Touch miss
him dearly. Y
Wilson Soares Liberal
Oct. 12, 1947-July 1, 1989
Willie was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In 1973 he mov¬
ed to New York
City. He was a
vivacious man
whose enchan¬
ting presence
captivated one
immediately. His
greatest joy was
to be surrounded
by those he lov¬
ed, and he was
gifted with the
ability to give of himself, making each
person feel they held a special place in
his heart. He loved life passionately and
struggled courageously to keep his life.
In 1988 after several agonizing bouts
with AIDS, he moved to San Francisco
with his lover Tom, so that Tom could
obtain better care for him. When death
appeared to be imminent, his mother
and sister were called in Sao Paulo, and
booked a flight to San Francisco. His
mother remained in San Francisco car¬
ing for him with Tom until Willie’s
death.
Willie is survived by his mother,
Neuza Soares Liberal; a sister, Neuza
Liberal Stegun; and a nephew, Fabiano
Liberal Stegun; all of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A requiem Mass was offered at the
Episcopal Church of St. John the
Evangelist in his memory and for his
family and friends that mourn. For fur¬
ther details call Gary at 255-1217. Y
Philip Lynn Manly
Jan. 19,1951-Jan. 28,1994
Philip died on Jan. 28 at California
Pacific Hospital
from AIDS-re¬
lated complica¬
tions.
Philip —sweet
prince; precious,
gentle soul; good
son; real friend;
generous, always
giving more than
you took; affec¬
ting all whose
life you touched;
lover of all beauty; unconditional in
your love; delightful; playful; tasteful;
traveler; artist; always seeing the best
in each of us.
You have left us, but you will never
be forgotten. We love you — Your
friends and family.
For more information, call Willy
Wilson at (415) 826-8269. Donations can
be made to: Proyecto Contra SIDA por
Vida (864-7278), 3690-18th St., SF, CA
94110. Y
"Stevie" Young Tae Oh
“Stevie” Young Tae Oh has been
taken from us. His charm and smile will
be with us always. Many will miss you;
you are always in our hearts. Goodbye.
Mr. Oh is survived by his wife and
three-year-old daughter. Y
Charles "Spot" Prongos
Dec. 24, 1951-Jan. 15,1994
Born on December 24,1951, Charles
died on January 15, 1994, ready for his
next journey, diaries was creative,
bright, willful and always full of
himself. He was a lover of life, musical
comedy, and crosses. Charles will be
remembered by his four sisters, Diane,
Barbara, Jenny and Patti, and his many
friends. God bless you on your journey,
dear Charles. Y
Dwight Nelson Tyler
July 11, 1952-Jan. 29, 1994
Our beloved Dwightie crossed over
this past Saturday despite wonderful
care. He was a
charmer and a
gentleman
throughout this
ordeal. In life he
was generous
and a humani¬
tarian. He was
always the “life
of the party” and
loads of fun. He
cared deeply
about children,
and each year he organized a Toys for
Tots drive. He was tireless in helping
friends during adversity. Everybody
loved him. Y
Maria Francine Vega
June 5,1959-Jan. 21,1994
Maria Francine Vega was bom in
Hoboken, N.J.,
on June 5, 1959.
In 1982 she mov¬
ed to San Fran¬
cisco with her
husband and
two children.
She was loved by
all who knew
her and was the
life of the party
everywhere she
went. Maria had
many friends at Amelia’s and Maud’s.
She had a special love for children and
delighted in her grandchildren, Saman¬
tha, Anthony, and Angelica, her nieces,
nephews and godchildren.
On Jan. 21, 1994, Maria succumbed
after a courageous battle with AIDS.
She is survived by her loving husband,
Manuel Ruiz; devoted daughter Fran¬
cine and husband Jaime; sons, Michael
Vega and Michael Ruiz; mother, Bemie;
brother Frans and wife Rose; sisters,
Karen, Laurie Arne, Wendy and Kitten;
nephew Erik and wife Jacqueline; and
all the children who loved her so much.
Special gratitude to Dr. Basch, Pat
Manning (her AIDS Task Force “bud¬
dy”) and all the nurses from Contra
Costa Dept, of Health and Hospice of
East County. Y
Thomas A. Wilcox
Feb. 3,1955-Jan. 7, 1994
Tom died at home in San Francisco.
His untimely
death caused by
AIDS is tragic.
He was a loving
man and an ex¬
ceptionally gifted
singer. Tom was
a native of Ohio.
He received his
bachelor’s de¬
gree in piano
and voice from
Wheaton Col¬
lege. After graduation he spent two
years touring Europe as a soloist for the
German State Church. His extensive
graduate work was completed at the
University of Southern California.
In 1980 he was awarded first prize at
the Netherlands Shertogenbosch Inter¬
national Singing Competition. He has
been a finalist in the Gold Award for
Singer (London), the Munich Interna¬
tional Singing Competition, Western
Regional Metropolitan Opera Audi¬
tions, San Francisco Opera Auditions
and the Young Concert Artist Audition
(NYC). He was the recipient of a Mar¬
tha Baird Rockefeller Fellowship
award.
Tom performed as a lieder, oratorio
and operatic singer throughout the
United States and Europe.
In 1987 Tom retired as a professional
singer. Concurrently he put his love and
energy into trying to find a cure for
AIDS. He was instrumental in the crea¬
tion of the Community Research In¬
itiative and PWA Health Group in NYC
and the Community Research Alliance.
He served as director of HIV Care at St.
Francis Hospital in San Francisco from
1989 to 1992. His genuine love of life and
appreciation of those around him will
always be remembered by the many
people whose lives he touched. For fur¬
ther information call Gary at 255-1217.
Y
Gary E. Wilder Jr.
April 11,1958-Jan. 5,1994
To remember Gary is to remember
a boyish, young
many who had a
remarkable zest
for life. You
could not help
but love Gary
because of the
charm and
warmth that he
radiated.
While he lived
in Michigan and
Florida, he felt
most at home in his native California.
As a bartender and waiter at Molly
Brown’s on the Russian River, Gary’s
personality made him many friends.
Gary was also a recognized antique and
glassware professional, owning and
operating his own antique shops in
Clearwater, Fla., and Guerneville. His
professional advice was sought by
dealers nationwide.
Gary is survived by the two men who
loved him most, Eddie Barker and
Patrick. His parents and sisters reside
in Ludington, Michigan. In his memory,
donations to the AIDS Emergency
Fund are requested. Y
Halleck Wagner
Dec. 7,1915-Jan. 16,1994
Hal passed from this life of a heart at¬
tack at age 78. He was born in Reno,
Nev., during WWI and served his coun¬
try and history in the Coast Guard dur¬
ing WWII.
Hal loved opera, movies, and gay por¬
no, but above all else, he loved sports,
particularly tennis. He was also an ac¬
tor and director at San Francisco State
University. He worked at the old Hit-
tenberger’s Co. for many years. The
only known next of kin is a cousin in
Portland, Ore. He also loved smoking
and refused to quit.
Hal wasn’t religious in the formal
sense — so there will be no memorial
service — but he was a kind fellow and
the gang at the Lafayette restaurant
down in the Tenderloin miss him,
especially Kayne and Dave.
You have not been forgotten, Hal
Wagner. Y
Bear - Dov • Satya
(Don Klein)
March 25, 1945-Jan. 10, 1994
“Bear” Dov Ben Khayyim, an
openhearted,
honest and play¬
ful spirit, passed
from this life on
January 10, due
to complications
from AIDS, in
the loving pres¬
ence of his life
partner of 15
years, Ron
Congo.
Born in
Chicago, raised in Florida, Bear first
came to the Bay Area in 1971. Defining
life events were his coming out and
travels to India, Israel and the
Southwest. He held a dental degree but
chose his right livelihood as gardening
and landscaping. Besides nature, his
passions included living simply,
spiritual growth, and his identity and
activism as a gay man, a Jew, a feminist,
and on behalf of oppressed peoples and
cultures. A freelance writer, he was an
original staff member of Boston’s Gay
Community News. His “children” were
his non-sexist edition of The Telling: A
Loving Hagadah for Passover and his
cherished garden at his Berkeley home.
In addition to Ron, Bear is survived
by his brother, Michael; his sister, Ellen;
two nieces and a nephew; his close
friend, Wayne Myers; numerous other
loving friends; and “doggie” Sinbad. A
memorial celebration will be held on
Sunday, February 13, at 1:30 p.m.,
Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley. Call (415) 6414556 for record¬
ed details.
Contributions can be made to RFD,
Aquarian Minya, Pele Defense Fund,
Hagadah Fund, and Ruti Hafsadi Mid¬
dle East Peace Fund, do Russell
Discher, 550 S. Van Ness No. 405, SF
94110. (415) 621-2747. For general infor¬
mation, call Wayne (510) 548-9201. Y
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Obituaries
Bruce Weinberg
March 10, 1942-Jan. 26, 1994
Bruce died from AIDS on a sunny
afternoon bet¬
ween storms. He
was an interna¬
tionally known
artist and print-
maker. He is,
was, and ever
will be respected
for his style and
panache, tem¬
pered by an ear¬
thy wit and per¬
sistent point of
view.
Along with his refined artistic sen¬
sibilities, Bruce had as keen an eye as
any for a good-looking man.
Bruce was lovingly attended to and
visited by friends too numerous to
name, by family members, and by his
special guardian, Peggy. A sister,
brother, their spouses, three nephews
and a niece are family survivors.
A remembrance will be held on
Saturday, February 5, at 1 p.m. in
Bruce’s home and garden. Please call
(510) 482-9412 for information and direc¬
tions. ▼
World News
FundiesAre Fundies, Wherever Yo u Go:
Zealots Object to
Gay Play in Egypt
United Press International
CAIRO — The Egyptian
Peoples Assembly (the coun¬
try’s Parliament) is the latest
avenue for the ongoing dis¬
putes between the county’s
conservative and liberal fac¬
tions over contemporary
trends, including the liberal¬
ization of Egyptians’ opinions
about homosexuality.
Galal Gharib, an indepen¬
dent Minister of Parliament,
submitted a “query” to Minis¬
ter of Culture Farouk Hos-
niand, asking him to resign
for violating religious values
in ministry-sponsored events
and publications.
He also criticized the gov-
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turing a play on homosexual¬
ity.
Gharib asked all parlia¬
mentary women to leave the
chamber in order to be freer
in his query that dealt with
obscene sentences and pic¬
tures published by the min¬
istry. After most of the wom¬
en refused, Gharib accused
the minister of encouraging
deviation in young people by
printing paintings of naked
people and obscene poetry in
the government-sponsored
artistic monthly Ibdaa.
This latest flap is just one
battle in the ongoing war be¬
tween the country’s conserva¬
tives and liberals — or the ex¬
tremists and secularists as
they call each other.
The liberal camp on the
other side lashed out as well.
Dr. Ghali Shoukry, a literary
critic, wrote in the leftist
weekly Rose Al-Youssef that
the query “crystalises a
bloody coup against culture
and cultured.” In response,
the cultured, intellectuals, and
artists are planning a silent
march to the Peoples Assem¬
bly to object to the query. No¬
bel Prize laureate Naguib
Mahfouz, 83, will lead the
march.
In the meantime, liberals
are collecting signatures on a
statement that condemns “in¬
tellectual terrorism.” They
consider Gharib’s query part
of Muslim militants’ cam¬
paign to overthrow President
Mubarak’s secular govern¬
ment to impose a stricter Is¬
lamic government. More than
250 people have been killed,
and 600 others wounded, in
extremist-sponsored terrorist
acts against the Egyptian peo¬
ple since March of 1992. ▼
Thai AIDS
United Press International
BANGKOK - Within eight
years Thailand will have re¬
placed African countries at
the top of the list of nations
having the most carriers of
HIV, an AIDS expert has pre¬
dicted.
Virasit Sithitrai, a director
of the Red Cross Aids Project
in Thailand, said at present
there are between 600,000 and
800,000 HIV cases in Thai¬
land, which has a population
of about 57 million.
He predicted that by 2002,
Thailand will have the most
HIV carriers of any country
in the world, including those
of Africa, where the disease is
currently most prevalent.
Virasit told The Nation
that currently 1.8 percent of
Thai housewives are HIV-pos¬
itive, up from 1.4 percent in
1992, and the ratio of female
to male patients is two-to-one.
“Our campaign will con¬
centrate more on women in¬
stead of men,” the Red Cross
official said.
Thailand’s booming sex in¬
dustry and intravenous drug
use have been blamed for the
country’s soaring AIDS rates,
particularly in rural areas, de¬
spite ambitious AIDS aware¬
ness programs. ▼
Health & Community
ACT UP Golden Gate Meetings are Tuesdays, 7pm. 584B
Castro. Discuss treatment issues, possible actions and
recommendations. 252-9200.
ACT UP SF Meets every Thursday at 7:30pm in the
Women's Building, 3543 18th St., 3rd FI. 621-0291.
AIDS Family Project Support for relatives, lovers, friends
of PWAs & HIVers. Operation Concern. 626-7000.
AIDS Project of Contra Costa Sponsors Hot Sex
Workshops, Guys Over 50 discussion groups, and Gay
Male HIV-positive Rap Group. For times and locations, call
(510) 356-2437.
Adult Children of Alcoholics Gay & lesbian support group
meets Wednesdays, 8-9:30pm, at MCC, Room 104, 150
Eureka St. All are welcome.
Bay Area Young Positives Support groups, retreats, fun
night, referrals and peer counseling for HIV-positive
people under 27. 518 Waller. 487-1616.
Black & White Men Together 826-BWMT.
Dignity SF Eucharist every Sun., 5:30pm. Presbyterian
Church, 1329 7th Ave. 681-2491.
Ellipse Support Groups Dealing with HIV, Bereavement,
and significant other groups meet weekly. Hope
Lutheran Church, 42nd Ave. & Kingridge Dr. 572-9702.
Free HIV Tests Counseling, education and anonymous
test results provided. Feb. 18, 10pm-12:30am. Upstairs
from Blow Buddies, 933 Harrison.
French-Speaking Social Group Meets the first Friday of
each month. 861-3155.
Gay Writers/Actors Group forming now to create
parodies of commercials for Gay Pride. 982-ALAN.
Gay Youth Awareness Training FOCYS, of Peninsula
Family YMCA, offers training for educators on gay youth
issues. 349-7969.
HIV Network Personal case management program for
people living with HIV & AIDS in Napa County. (707) 224-
5496.
HIV Support Workshops New groups forming, led by Neil
Kaminsky at Operation Concern. Recently diagnosed
workshop Feb. 9. Free. 626-7000.
Impact: A Workshop for Managing HIV Eight Monday
evening workshops on varied topics. Meets in Berkeley.
(510) 548-9854.
Lambda Youth Group Support group for les/bi/gay &
questioning youth up to age 23. Confidential. Weekly
meetings, Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. (510) 887-0566.
Making Better Sex Videos Lisa Ginsberg hosts a
workshop for women with cameras. $20. Feb. 9. 8-
10pm. Good Vibrations, 1210 Valencia. 974-8980.
McClintock AIDS Cure Act Working Group Direct action
working group to get the bill passed that will establish a
Manhattan Project-style research initiative. Meets weekly.
487-9954.
Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group volunteers
sought to provide emotional support and help with office
duties. 863-1581.
Peninsula Gay Men With HIV/AIDS Emotional support
group meets in San Mateo. 573-2587.
PLUS (Positive Living for Us) Weekend workshops in
health care, recovery, benefits, safer sex, and many more
topics concerning HIV. Feb. 4-6. Free, but limited to 75
people. Volunteers needed. 403-3800.
Safe Sex Video Contest San Francisco AIDS
Foundation's 2nd annual showcase of erotic explicit gay
men's videos seeks your submission. For guidelines and
category listings, write to Safe Sex Video II, SF AIDS
Foundation, 1170 Market St., 6th Floor, SF, CA 94102.
SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade & Celebration
Commitee Board of Directors meet Feb. 7. 7pm. General
membership meeting, Feb. 13, 5pm. The Construction
Center, 205 13th St at Mission. 864-3733.
SF Center for Living Workshops, classes, counseling,
body work, holistic and spiritual services. Volunteers
always welcome. 4054 18th St. 252-1666.
Sex, Dating and HIV Monthly discussion group for gay
and bisexual men. Drop-in first Friday of each month.
Marin AIDS Project, 1660 2nd St at G, San Rafael. 457-
2487.
Shanti Project Urgently needs volunteers to assist PWAs.
777-2273.
Veterans With HIV Support and social group at Oakland
VA Clinic. (510) 273-7331.
Visiting Nurses and Hospice Volunteers needed to help
care for PWAs and others with life-threatening illnesses.
Training for new violunteers. 861-6959.
Women's HIV Clinic 12:30-4:30pm every second &
fourth Monday. San Mateo County AIDS Program. 573-
2385.
Voices of Pride Sexual minority resource center offers
support services to queer and questioning youth 23 and
under. (510) 530-8529 or (415) 553-4026.
Women Embracing Life (WEL) Support group for women
with HIV. The Women's Bldg., 3543 18th St. 668-3765.
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 24
GLAAD Media Watch
Focus on Riggs
Health News
by Al Kielwasser
F ilmmaker and culture-
critic Marlon Riggs is
the subject of a cover
story in February’s San
Francisco Focus magazine. In a
(rare) nine-page interview with
Michael Datcher — a self-identi¬
fied “recovering homophobe” —
Riggs comments on his life,
work, and politics as an
African-American, gay, and
HIV-positive man.
The filmmaker’s almost su¬
pernatural eloquence pervades
this moving tribute. “Silence
kills the soul; it diminishes its
possibilities to rise and fly and
explore,” Riggs explains to his
astute interviewer. “Silence
withers what makes you hu¬
man. The soul falters. It lives in
a cage, and the cage continues
to shrink, and it shrinks as the
cage shrinks, until it’s nothing.”
Focus is the magazine of
KQED, Inc. In addition to this
welcome cover story, KQED’s
television operation (Channel 9)
will broadcast two of Riggs’s
films as part of their Black His¬
tory Month offerings. Affirma¬
tions airs Feb. 4 at 11:00 p.m.,
and Color Adjustment airs Feb.
25 at 9:30 p.m.
Comments should be sent to
RickClogher, ManagingEditor,
San Francisco Focus, 2601
Mariposa St., S.F., CA 94110-
1400, tel. 415-553-2800, fax 415-
553-2470.
It's about Time
According to the Reuter’s
newsservice, media giant Time
Warner, Inc. is considering “the
creation of a magazine aimed at
gay readers.” A Time Inc.
spokes-person said, “We’re ex¬
ploring the idea and concept at
this point. It’s at a very prelim¬
inary, early stage. A lot of work
needs to be done.”
Send your very preliminary,
early comments and inquiries to
Public Affairs Department,
Time Warner Inc., 75 Rocke¬
feller Plaza, New York, NY
10019, tel. 212-484-8000.
Place/Matt
Matt, the continuing gay
character on Melrose Place, has
finally met a potential new love
interest. On the Feb. 26 episode,
Matt meets a stranger over
lunch. They hit it off, flirt a bit,
and eventually make plans for a
dinner date. Matt, However,
soon learns his new friend is
something of a mystery man; he
won’t give Matt his phone num¬
ber or reveal what he does for a
living. By the episode’s end,
though, it is revealed Matt’s
date is a closeted Naval officer
who feels he must keep his sex¬
ual orientation hidden from his
family and his government.
It’d be great if Matt’s new
beau could be an open, proud,
informed, gay man (rather than
a deeply-damaged, culturally-
disconnected closet case). Still,
the producers are moving
Matt’s character in the right di¬
rection. Besides, everyone’s life
on Melrose Place is wretchedly
complicated, and Matt’s is no
exception. Compared to the
show’s amorous heterosexuals,
however, Matt is still a virtual
eunuch. But that could change
as this new plot line develops.
Keep watching.
Send encouragingcomments
to Darren Starr, Executive Pro¬
ducer, Melrose Place, Spelling
Enterprises, 5700 Wilshire
Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90042.
We must confront homophobia in order to cure it! To notify the Gay
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation of any defamatory media cover¬
age, or to request GLAAD membership information, write to
GLAAD/SFBA, 514 Castro Street, Suite B, San Francisco, CA 94114. Call
our main office at 415-861-4588; fax, 415-861-4893; South Bay, 408-235-0229;
East Bay, 510-273-9146; North Bay, 415-647-3055. ▼
Doug Savant, the actor who
plays Matt, has championed the
inclusion of gay characters on
TV. Savant expressed his hope
that, through exposure to Matt’s
character, straight viewers will
“begin to have the requisite
compassion and understanding
needed to obliterate the insidi¬
ous evil that is homophobia.”
Letters can be sent to Doug Sa¬
vant, c/o J. Michael Bloom, 9200
Sunset Blvd., Suite 710, Los An¬
geles 90069.
CBS News:
Sensitive, but not accurate
In a Nov. 1, 1993, broadcast
of the CBS Evening News, cor¬
respondent Scott Pelley said of
Colorado’s Amendment 2, “Ba¬
sically, Amendment 2 says that
homosexuals have no special
legal rights in Colorado,’
putting a great deal of emphasis
on the word “special.’
Lesbians and gays across the
country informed CBS that Pel
ley’s report was inaccurate;
Amendment 2 would deny us
equal rights, not special rights.
In response, CBS Bureau Chief
Alan Parcell promised to cor¬
rect the record and offer his
written apology for the thought¬
less use of right wing rhetoric.
Pressed for that long-awaited
apology, however, Parcell had
only this to say (in a letter dated
Jan. 11, 1994): “While we stand
by the accuracy of the story, we
also appreciate the sensitivity
that some words connote, and
will try to be sensitive ourselves
to their usage when doing fu¬
ture stories involving the gay
and lesbian community.”
Thanks for the sensitivity,
Al, but the fact is that the story
wasn’t factual! Send comments
to Alan Parcell, Bureau Manag¬
er, CBS News, Two Dallas
Communications Complex, 6309
North O’Conner, Suite 125, Irv¬
ing, Texas 75039, tel. 214-869-
2000.
Sign of the times
“Hate Can Stop Here — Re¬
scind the Resolution.” That’s
the message carried on a bill¬
board unveiled February 1 in
Cobb County, Georgia. The ad¬
vertisement is a response to a
Cobb County Commission reso¬
lution, passed last year, that
condemns lesbian and gay citi¬
zens. The Cobb County Board
of Commissioners declared that
“gay lifestyles” are incompatible
with community values and re¬
stricted arts funding to (hetero¬
sexual) projects or groups that
promote “family-oriented stan¬
dards.”
The new billboard campaign
is part of an on-going effort to
bring social justice (and com¬
mon sense) back to Cobb. The
Cobb Citizens Coalition and
Concerned Citizens of Cobb are
currently raising money to keep
the billboard up through March
of this year.
To offer assistance and en¬
couragement, contact the Cobb
Citizens Coalition, Billboard
Project, P.O. Box 965336, Mari¬
etta, GA, 30066, tel. 404-256-
8690. You can also lend public
support by writing to “Letters
to the Editor,” Marietta Daily
Journal, 580 Fairground St.,
Marietta, GA, 30061; “Letters to
the Editor,” Atlanta Constitu¬
tion, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta,
GA 30302. To share opinions
about the impact of hate legisla¬
tion on local business revenues,
call the Cobb Chamber of Com¬
merce, 404-980-2000. ▼
AAPHR Goes to Atlanta
Friday Meeting with CDCIsJust the Beginning, Apparently
by Dennis Conkin
Leaders of the American
Association of Physicians For
Human Rights, the San Fran¬
cisco-based national organiza¬
tion for lesbian, gay, and bi¬
sexual physicians and medical
students, will meet in Atlanta,
Georgia this Friday with the
new director of the Centers for
Disease Control.
The February 4 meeting,
according to attorney Ben
Schatz, AAPHR executive di¬
rector, will be the first be¬
tween David Satcher, M.D.,
the newly appointed CDC di¬
rector, and representatives of
the lesbian and gay communi¬
ty.^
“In the past, we’ve had to
go through the back door and
beg for table scraps,” Schatz
told the Bay Area Reporter.
Now, he said, “We’re going in
through the front door.”
The gay and lesbian
groups will discuss concerns
about gay and lesbian health
issues, in addition to AIDS.
Among the items on
AAPHR has on the agenda
for the one-hour meeting is a
request for the CDC to begin
compiling sexual orientation
statistics in the incidence of
diseases that it tracks, in or¬
der to have an accurate pic¬
ture of how many reported
cases of heart disease or other
illnesses are affecting the les¬
bian and gay community.
Also, the group intends to
discuss the federal agency’s
failure to track incidence of
HIV in the lesbian communi¬
ty, and the need to do so in
the future.
Another key point the
group intends to raise is “the
level of funding for HIV pre¬
vention efforts among gay
and bisexual men, including
education campaigns that are
gay-specific,” Schatz said.
In the past, the CDC has
been unwilling to target pub¬
lic service and media and out¬
reach prevention campaigns
towards gay and bisexual
men.
“Actually, the CDC has
called for a meeting to discuss
that issue on February 10. We
are very encouraged that they
AAPHR Executive Director
Ben SchatZ. (Photo: Scott Martin)
have called that meeting,”
Schatz said.
Schatz said that the group
“is optimistic” about the
change in leadership at the
federal agency, and said he
thinks there is a real interest
in working with AAPHR
within the CDC.
“We have every reason to
believe they are receptive to
our point of view. It’s a great
opportunity after years of ho¬
mophobic leadership at the
CDC,” he said. T
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Queer Watch
Strained Relationships
by Michael C. Botkin
T his past weekend fea¬
tured “Super Bowl
Sunday,” statistically
the most dangerous
day of the year for American
wives. Domestic violence
peaks during the “Big Game”
for specific reasons never
clearly spelled out by the pun¬
dits and analysts. This is just
one of those hints one gets ev¬
ery now and then that mar¬
riage, that ancient and most
respected of institutions,
doesn’t quite live up to its
rosy image. The gay commu¬
nity, which recently began de¬
manding marriage rights, has
frequently been told that it is
not worthy or capable of the
duties of matrimony. This is
doubly insulting when you
consider the low standards
apparently current among the
mainstream community, as
reflected in the Super Bowl’s
lethality.
Dry statistics aside, consid¬
er the most prominent hetero¬
sexual relationships you see
in the media these days: phi¬
landering Prince Charles and
long-suffering Princess Di;
would-be Olympic skater
Tonya Harding and her (very
recently) ex-husband Jeff
Gillooly, who she allegedly
tried to have “knocked off’
last year before rediscovering
her love for him (and finding
other outlets for her violent
streak); and, of course, John
and Lorena Bobbitt, on the
cutting edge of marriage con¬
flict mediation. With promi¬
nent examples like these,
where are today’s youth of
whatever sexual orientation
going to acquire healthy and
positive images of romance,
love and marriage?
The new gay male rela¬
tionships portrayed in the me¬
dia are, of course, no better.
At the top of the list would
have to be Michael Jackson’s
resolution of his “romance”
with an underage boy for an
out-of-court settlement ru¬
mored to be as much as $50
million. This would be half of
Jackson’s total worth, which
when you think about it is ap¬
propriate for a “divorce.”
When the boy’s father initial¬
ly asked for $20 million (a re¬
quest Jackson’s lawyers at
that time stigmatized as “an
extortion attempt” ), he was
counter-offered a mere
$300,000. In retrospect we can
see that Jackson’s attempts to
haggle merely doubled the
cost.
The Catholic Church is
also settling out of court in lit¬
erally dozens of pedophilia
cases, although the multi-mil¬
lion dollar payoffs are threat¬
ening to bankrupt some arch¬
dioceses. As with Jackson,
there is a PR cost as well,
since these priests were sup¬
posed to be celibate and not
running up huge tabs to pay
for the damage caused by
their apparently incessant sex-
ploits.
Given such grim images in
the news, those who wish to
observe positive images of ro¬
mance must turn to fiction,
and last month many turned
to the just released TV ver¬
sion of Armistead Maupin’s
Tales of the City.
Shadowy liaisons
Local queers tuned in by
the thousand to view the clas¬
sic tale of San Francisco in
the 70s. Bars and other queer
environments emptied out a
half-hour before show time on
the three consecutive nights
the series screened, as enthu¬
siastic gays flocked home to
watch it. By so encouraging
queer cocooning, Tales of the
City may have incidentally
promoted gay relationships;
however, it did surprisingly
little to portray them.
The story, as even main¬
stream critics couldn’t help
but notice, is primarily a het¬
erosexual romance. It follows
the relationship between
Anna Madrigal, eventually re¬
vealed to be a transsexual,
and Edgar Halcyon, a
wealthy (and married) adver¬
tising executive from their
initial chance meeting in a
park to Edgar’s death. Gay
and lesbian liaisons are
briefly viewed going on
around the edges, but they
are merely local color gar¬
nishing the story’s central ro¬
mance.
One could argue that the
Madrigal-Halcyon liaison is
rather queer, since Anna
wasn’t born a woman. If one
takes a hard anti-transsexual
line and denies that any
meaningful transformation re¬
sults from “gender reassign¬
ment,” then Anna and Edgar
are engaging in homosexual
relations. But fine points of
gender and orientation aside,
it is clearly a “heterosexual”
romance because the male
and female roles are so clear¬
ly defined.
The gay and lesbian li¬
aisons look shadowy in con¬
trast to this sweet and
poignant affair. Mona engages
in a desultory reconciliation
with an old lover; this lesbian
affair is subtly hinted to be
what the French call a “mar¬
riage blanc,” a pure or sexless
relationship based on affec¬
tion rather than passion. In
any case, it collapses by the
end of the book. Mouse, the
gay Everyman, has a fling
with a handsome gynecolo¬
gist, but this relationship also
soon ends.
Pixilated in the sticks
Despite the surprisingly
low queer content, Tales of
the City was still pretty obvi¬
ously the best TV we’re going
to see for quite a while. I was
not surprised to hear that it
was the most watched show
of the week, at least locally.
Was this despite, or rather be¬
cause of, the oft-repeated
warning that “this show may
not be suitable for some audi¬
ences”? Out of similar con¬
cern for the tastes (or rather
prejudices?) of “some audi¬
ences,” a slightly censored
version was screened in some
markets. The bowdlerized
version “pixilates” Mona’s
bare breasts, among other
things; viewers in San Fran¬
cisco got to see her nipples
while those in Nashville only
saw a vague checkerboard
pattern, like an anonymous
witness’s face on a true crime
show.
Both versions, however,
showed the first truly passion¬
ate gay kiss ever screened
during prime time. Pundits
also marveled that the public
would be exposed to a por¬
trayal of a gay bathhouse,
but it was a very tame, not to
mention well-lighted, estab¬
lishment that they showed.
The Tales of the City se¬
ries, six books in all (the TV
series is based only on the
first), rarely gets around to de¬
tailed descriptions of gay rela¬
tionships. In the first book,
Mouse meets and loses Jon,
his gynecologist lover. In the
second book, they reconcile —
but at the very end of the
novel, so you don’t actually
see much of them relating. By
the third book, Jon is dead,
having died of AIDS between
volumes, and although one in¬
fers a period of blissful ro¬
mance, it’s never actually dis¬
played. In book four Mouse
doesn’t ever have sex or a
date, let alone a boyfriend. In
book five he meets the love of
his life, and they even get it
on before the beau returns to
the East Coast at novel’s end.
Only in the final volume do
we see Mouse settled down
and living with a partner.
A friend of mine has sug¬
gested that perhaps Maupin,
the author, didn’t have a
boyfriend until after he wrote
the first five books and thus
was unable to confidently
portray gay male relation¬
ships. Lack of personal expe¬
rience didn’t inhibit his abili¬
ty or interest in describing
lesbian or heterosexual li¬
aisons, however. The answer,
I think, must lie in the poor
media market for gay rela¬
tionships.
This is why, I suspect, that
although there are already
several books on Charles and
Di, and we can confidently
expect books and made-for-
TV movies on both the Hard-
ing-Giloolys and the Bobbitts,
there will be no Michael Jack-
son: The True Story or I
Was a Molested Teenage Al¬
tar Boy extravaganza on the
airwaves anytime soon. Who
would sponsor such a show?
Harding can promote “the
club” and Lorena Bobbitt can
market Ginzu knives, but
what can Michael Jackson sell
now?
The mainstream media,
alas, aims for the lowest com¬
mon denominator. Gay rela¬
tionships apparently aren’t
low or common enough to
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182844
URBAN REMOVAL, 75 Gough St. #8, San
Francisco, CA 94102: KENNETH J.
WEINER, 75 Gough St. #8, San Francis¬
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the above fictitious business name on
the date January 24,1994. This business
is conducted by an individual. Siqned
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Francisco, CA on December 24, 1993.
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182793
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PIANOS TO RENT, 2075 Market St., San
Francisco, CA 94114: BEVERLY J.
OLSON, 14869 Midland Rd., San Lean¬
dro, CA 94578.
Registrant commenced business under
the above fictitious business name on
the date January 21, 1994. This business
is conducted by an individual. Signed
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This statement was filed with the Coun¬
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Francisco, CA on January 21, 1994.
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182751
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Heights Blvd #307, San Francisco, CA
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the above fictitious business name on
the date January 18, 1994. This business
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the above fictitious business name on
the date September 1, 1988. This busi¬
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STATEMENT FILE NO. 182843
The following person is doing business as
THEN AND NOW, 1700 Anza St. #6, San
Francisco, CA 94118: RUDI P. TERUEL,
1700 Anza St. #6, St., San Francisco, CA
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the above fictitious business name on
the date January 24, 1994. This business
is conducted by an individual. Signed
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1994. L-182843
Black Gay
(Continued from page 1)
I curse those whose defini¬
tion of genocide dismisses a
people’s collective tragedy be¬
cause their deaths will not be
traced to one tragic episode,
person, perpetrator, nation,
time. I contend that whether
the tragedy is spread over
centuries or a moment, when
it is defined by malicious si¬
lence and malignant oppres¬
sion, it is still genocide.
We must take off our blin¬
ders: racism, sexism, hetero¬
sexism and anti-Semitism are
oppressions, deliberate and
systematic. So I know what to
call it when white-run pro¬
grams and agencies refused to
create programs designed to
keep blacks alive.
I know what to call it
when a pandemic goes ten
years before targeted U.S.
government grants provide
for black people with AIDS
restricted monies that are of¬
fered as a band-aid solution to
keep a few black people alive.
I know what to call it
when white-run AIDS service
organizations — inspired by
greed, not altruism — then di¬
rect only minuscule resources
targeting a few black people
with AIDS so they can lay
claim, where none actually
exists, to equality and service
to all. I am neither deaf,
dumb, nor mute. I know what
to call it. Genocide.
Heterosexism is an oppres¬
sion not defined to one partic¬
ular era in time. Forever will
it exist amongst — yes I will
name them! — black hetero¬
sexists who would rather see
black faggots and drag queens
not be part of their communi¬
ty’s life. Black gays, bisexuals
and transsexuals must label
their holocaust as such. Do
not be silent about those
amongst our own who did not
mind that we died.
Too many black preachers
and their minions, politicians
and civilians, refuse to em¬
brace the “sexual deviants.”
Some will acknowledge us in
private, then in public refuse
to embrace those who are
gay. In the limelight they will
not love us or hold us or
shout out our names — though
amidst the glow of the night-
light, when hormones enrage,
some, in hypocrisy, whisper
our names.
Because of their silence,
black “leaders” set examples
and teach their minions to be
mute. Their deliberate con¬
spiratorial silence has sealed
their named “sexual deviants”
in coffins and caskets and
urns, and left others unable to
speak to the gay ones with
compassionate words or voice
love unconditionally to the
gay ones with AIDS.
I know what to call it
when, with black pride as a
rally cry, my community at¬
tempts to murder black gay
culture. They try to erase
from history our love and
dedication to the race. Al¬
ready dead to our history are
the contributions of my broth¬
ers and transgendered sisters.
Yes, we meet Webster’s cri¬
teria for the term genocide.
How sadly ironic that as
black people collectively we
struggle for liberation, yet
will not in unison claim that
freedom too must come for
those who call themselves
black transgendered, bisexual
or gay. Condemned to self-ha¬
tred, many black homo-/bi-/
trans-sexual men find they
can imagine only dying — not
living — with AIDS.
There is evidence that
black “leaders,” with inten¬
tional malice, have intimated
we be stoned to death. There
is evidence that others have
said they can prove we don’t
exist — that homosexuality is
a white racist plot to steal
“our men” from our “wom¬
en.” Well, let me be clear on
this: this black gay man be¬
longs to no one.
Already too many black
“leaders” are comfortable
with a black gay historical
death. Already many have
cleansed us from history. Al¬
ready many have declared in
public and private that AIDS
would not have been a bad
disease if it stayed (though it
never existed solely) amongst
gay men, thereby eliminating
from the community the
black faggots who dare claim
themselves black. 'They left
us to die. Refused to name us
from a place of love. They de¬
nied us a place in black pride,
then used racial pride as the
heterosexist rallying cry to
justify their refusal to claim
us as their own.
I no longer believe I must
justify to others my existence.
I have a right to be here. To¬
day, I choose to work with
those people not afraid to
claim me their own. I live
amongst black gay-/bi-/trans-
sexual brothers and sisters
(we do exist by the way) who
together declare We are as
good as anyone.
From this day forward
may we be black gay, bisexu¬
al, and transgendered men,
who dare fellowship with les¬
bians sisters and who, togeth¬
er, guide our own future. We
claim ourselves as our own.
We assert our collective right
to survive.
Notwithstanding the
above, I can’t place blame on
others without looking at my¬
self. Internalized in each of
us are poisoned seeds of self¬
oppression, sown sometimes
by ignorance and other times
by design. Planted within
each woman and man, op¬
pressions of race, gender, and
sexual-orientation reap boun¬
tiful harvest of dead bodies.
Dead black gav bodies. Dead
black bisexual bodies. Dead
black transgendered bodies.
Oppressions have been
planted deep within each of
the communities we claim as
our own, so we each must
claim as part of our struggle
the end of sexism, racism,
anti-Semitism, and heterosex¬
ism. If not, our AIDS-induced
phobias, lurking within, will
be the death of us all. If not,
our deep-seeded fear of “the
other” will be fertile enough
to let grow a malignant group
silence that will deliver to the
heavens many more souls of
black folk before their time.
I turn inward and reveal
my early denial. Once, not
long ago, I refused to count
the funerals, the memorials,
the urns, the caskets, the
tombstones. I can connect my¬
self to the death-riddled histo¬
ry of my brothers and sisters.
I do not ask of anyone what I
will not ask of myself: What
role did my silence play in
the genocide of my people?
Surely, without redemption,
this question will haunt me
the rest of my life.
I lay claim to redemption.
I vow that having learned
from past silence, the voice of
my future will be strong and
uncompromising. I will not si¬
lence myself again. In time, I
will make peace with my
past. Forever may I be strong
in the fight to keep my broth¬
ers and sisters alive.
In my heart, soul and
mind, my reason for commit¬
ment is clear: I won’t forget
the members of my commu¬
nal family or multisexual
black community or multicul¬
tural gay community who
were murdered by AIDS.
I remember James Toms, a
black/Native American gay
man and friend. He died of
AIDS less than two years ago,
though he had a right still to
be here. His spirit I miss. His
love I miss. His political and
personal strength I miss. With
hindsight I realize how his
multicultural vision, borne of
his dual cultural heritage, has
become my own vision.
Let me he
tle.u <m this:
matt belongs
me.
I remember Craig Harris.
With humor he spoke of be¬
ing trilingual — fluent in
“afro”, “euro,” and “homo”.
He died in 1992, though he
had a right still to be here.
Despite a public gay identity,
Craig knew (in the biblical
sense of the word) both wom¬
en and men. On some days,
so he will not be disappeared,
I try to capture his wisdom in
the wind, for Craig testified
and signified and tried like no
other. With foresight, he de¬
clared that men must be fem¬
inists. He reminded us that
whatever longevity we claim
for our brothers and sisters
with AIDS did not come with
out our lesbian sisters, who
with us organized and cared
and pounded the streets.
I remember Arielle Ma-
kela. A black transsexual, she
had a right still to be here.
With memories of Arielle
come this comforting refrain:
she is with the great transgen¬
dered God she so loved. I tes¬
tify of Arielle’s brilliance, of
her strength and her stature.
Arielle’s “do-right-by-me”
creed was one of her gifts to
me. And because Arielle al¬
lowed me into her world, she
gave me an even greater gift:
the insight that it was not the
toughest lot in the world to be
a black gay man in America.
You see, Arielle, a black wom¬
an looking for peace, love, and
protection, was too often
shunned by a black gay-male
world that refused to claim
transgenders as their own.
Because of AIDS, my Uncle
Vincent no longer lives to sing
his love for The Temptations.
Some days I see clearly the
sadness in Vincent, Jr.’s soft
brown eyes, looking to me for
a fatherly guidance and love I
cannot always provide. It hurts
me to tell him I can’t fill in his
heart the space where his dad¬
dy was meant to be. But I can
tell his story; I can claim him
as my own and demand we all
come to see Vincent, Jr.’s right
to be here with daddy, though
daddy no longer survives.
Because of AIDS, my Aunt
Jenny no longer smiles to
brighten the lives of her chil¬
dren. I force myself to remem¬
ber her funeral, for I refuse to
wipe from my mind the tears
in the eyes of Jamel, Jameak,
and Janazer left alone to sur¬
vive. My kisses cannot replace
the maternal love forsaken for
the rest of their lives. But I can
tell their story; I can claim
them as my own and assert
their right to be here with
mommy, though mommy no
longer survives.
My own mother’s brother
and sister are dead: she shared
injection drugs with each, so
mommy dares not be tested
for HIV. I understand her re¬
fusal. At night mommy some¬
times dreams of her brother
and sister, sees tombstones,
and imagines her body buried.
And me? I dare not claim
as my own the death of my
mother, nor imagine a day I
no longer breathe in her laugh¬
ter, humor, and wit. I never
thought I’d mourn the trials
and tribulations that remind
me of mommy, but I will.
As a black gay man I have
cursed the God of my baptism.
I have forsaken religion. I do
believe though in the spirits of
yesterday, so I pray to the col¬
lective “higher power” of my
black ancestors. I believe they
hide in a place where time and
genocide do not reside. I pray
my ancestors remember this
earthly black nation aspires to
survive. I pray they make real
the dream Dr. King alone
could not revive.
When I summon my ances¬
tors this is my prayer: I want
not another of my friends to
be listed amongst the disap¬
peared, the forgotten. No more
BAY AREA REPORTER
invisible women and men. No
more AIDS-infected black
souls to join them in what
some label heaven.
With no belief in God or re¬
ligion, I still pray, because on
some days the genocide is as
real as the generation that
someday will no longer exist
between my grandmother and
each of her grandchildren. For
grandma Pearline, destiny de¬
clares there will be neither
daughter nor son to help her
grandchildren survive.
I pray because in each
prayer, subconscious and im¬
plicit, lies a belief of which I
am not always aware: one day
black people’s struggle will be
over. Our victory will be won.
I pray because only then
can I envision Dr. King’s
promise.
And since my prayer, not
grounded in faith, is also a
dream, I give myself permis¬
sion to believe that Craig,
James, Arielle, Vincent, Jenny,
and mommy again someday
will share with me their joy
and their laughter. ▼
Tony Glover is Director of
the Brothers Network, a San
Francisco-based HIV/AIDS
service agency founded, direct¬
ed, and staffed by black/
African-American and Carib¬
bean gay, bisexual, and trans¬
gendered men. An activist
since 1983, he led the student
anti-apartheid protests at
Columbia University in 1985,
investigated cases of AIDS-re-
lated discrimination at New
York City’s Human Rights
Commission, and founded
Men of All Colors Together
/New York’s federally funded
HIV/AIDS support services
project in New York City. His
essays have appeared in So¬
journer: Black Gay Voices in
the Age of AIDS, The City
Sun, and Gay Community
News. He is currently editing
Celebrating Diversity, a work-
in-progress featuring poems,
essays, narratives, and photog¬
raphy by 35 lesbians, gay men,
bisexual men, and two-spirit-
ed people from various cul¬
tures in the Americas, the Pa¬
cific Islands, the Middle East,
Southeast Asia, and southern
Africa.
FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 27
LEGAL NOTICES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO. 182985
n is doing business as
____ 170 Divisadero St.,
San Francisco, CA 94117: QUAKE PRO¬
OF, INC. CALIFORNIA, 170 Divisadero
St., San Francisco, CA 94117.
Registrant commenced business undei
the above fictitious business name on
the date N/A. This business is conducted
b^ a^corporation. Signed RUSSELL P.
This statement was filed with the Coun¬
ty Clerk of the City and County of San
Francisco, CA on January 28, 1994.
February 3, 10,17, 24,1994. L-182985
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO.
952480
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the
matter of the application of A MINOR BY
PARENT RONICA BENJAMIN TELEMA
OKOBI, JR., for change of name. The ap¬
plication of VICTAVIA ULLION GEORGES
for change of name, having been filed ir
Court, '
tion tl
has filed an application proposing that
HER name be changed to TELANNA IN-
GUZE BENJAMIN OKOBI. Now,
therefore, it is hereby ordered and
directed, that all persons interested in
said matter do appear before this Court
in Department X-4 on the 2nd day of
March 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of said day
to show cause why the application for
change of name should not be granted.
It is further ordered that a copy of this
Order be published in the BAY AREA RE¬
PORTER, a newspaper of general circula¬
tion, printed in said county, at least once
a week for four consecutive weeks prior
to the day of said hearing. Dated this
20th day of January, 1994.
February 3, 10, 17, 24,1994. L-952480
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO.
957549
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the
matter of the application of ANTONIO
DURAND JACOBS for change of name.
The application of ANTONIO DURAND
JACOBS for change of name, having
been filed in Court, and it appearing from
said application that ANTONIO DURAND
JACOBS has filed an application propos¬
ing that HIS name be changed to AN¬
TONIO DURAND HENDRICK. Now,
therefore, it is hereby ordered and
directed, that all persons interested in
said matter do appear before this Court
in Department X-4 on the 14th day of
February 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of said
day to show cause why the application
for change of name should not be
granted. It is further ordered that a copy
of this Order be published in the BAY
AREA REPORTER, a newspaper of gen¬
eral circulation, printed in said county, at
least once a week for four consecutive
weeks prior to the day of said hearing.
Dated this 4th day of January, 1994.
January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 1994.
L-957549
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO. 182715
The following person is doing business as
CAFFE MONDA, 2032 Polk St., San Fran¬
cisco, CA 94109: FRANK MONDA, 1411
Hyde St., San Francisco, CA 94109.
Registrant commenced business under
the above fictitious business name on
the date January 1, 1994. This business
is conducted by an individual. Signed
FRANK MONDA.
This statement was filed with the Coun¬
ty Clerk of the City and County of San
Francisco, CA on January 19, 1994.
JANUARY 27, FEBRUARY 3, 10, 17,
1994. L-182715
City and County of San Francisco
Department of Social Services
Solicitation of Interest (SOI)
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parents enrolled in educational/training programs and 300 foster
parents. Services include: arrange & refer clients for childcare,
maintain pool of providers and conduct site visits to distribute
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Registrant commenced business under
the above fictitious business name on
the date January 1, 1994. This business
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1994. L-182092
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME FILE NO.
957629
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, in the
matter of the application of ALISON LI
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(Mother) for change of name. The ap¬
plication of ALISON LI HENG LIANG for
change of nam-, having been filed in
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ordered and directed, that all persons in¬
terested in said matter do appear before
this Court in Department X-4 on the 16th
day of February 1994 at 9 o'clock AM, of
said day to show cause whv the applica¬
tion for change of name should not be
granted. It is further ordered that a copy
of this Order be published in the BAY
AREA REPORTER, a newspaper of gen¬
eral circulation, printed in said county, at
least once a week for four consecutive
weeks prior to the day of said hearing.
Dated this 5th day of January, 1994.
January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 1994.
L-957629
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'A utils 285-1494 9am-8pmE05
CASTRO/UPPER MARKET
M/F Wanted to Share 2 BR w/
Gay male/fpl/deck/new pnt
Strt Pking, Safe/quiet
$460/mo. Chris 864-7177 ASAP
EOS
HAYWARD AREA
HIV+, WM, 50 Seeks Resp M.
to share furn home. Own room,
bath, TV, VCR. Close to
BART. No drugs. Call or Lve
mess. Jim 510-489-8354
Avail now. $450/mo. Incs
utilities. Dlx Living eos
$410 Sunny Cole St. Corner
Flat w/Turret Window, Deco
Furn. GM/GW. NS 751-0141 eos
Sunny Potrero Hill Room
Avail in Beaut Home-Many
Xtras $375 Month. 550-6991
E06
$475 GWM large mod. apt.
deck, vu, own 'A BA, F/P, D/W
utils inc. No pets. Bob 648-8493
E05
Castro $675 elegant share.
All amenities. Ist/lst $300
dep. AvI. soon. 864-1909 eos
Share Redwod City Home
Fnce Yd, Garage, Own BA $485
Carport $450. Greg 364-4184
E06
$485 + V 2 Util Share
with GWM & 2 Cats, Sunny
Viet, flat in Castro. N/S &
N/D. Must be clean, mature,
& quiet. 864-5285 Lv. Mssg.Eos
Share Rental —Large 4 BDRM
House, lots of room. Large
backyard. Call Larry
570-6778 or 572-2426
Foster City eos
San Mateo GM seeks NS to
share home. $375. 341-7159
Shr. 4 BR 2 BA, Yard, W/D, Utl,
Cable, Kit Priv, HIV O.K.
Mature GWM, 35 up. Clean
neat, caring. No drugs., smkng.
No pets. Emp. days. $450/mo.
Avail 3/1/94 Ph. 563-3241 eos
$400 1 Lg. Br & Bth, Pvt.
entry. Shr. utl, ktn shr, w/
2 WMN, 1 Blk 2 BCH Nr TV ans
plus Prkng. 355-6278 Eves, eos
ROOMMATES;^®^
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OUR GAY ROOMMATE SERVICE
HAS HELPED 1000s OF
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RENTALS
Studio, Clean, Quiet, Secure
Bldg. Gabriel. 474-1083 eo7
Oakland, Glenview Area, 1 BR
Duplex, Yard, Garage, Pet O.K.
$650 (415) 557-5058 E04
3-BDRM, 2-BATH FLAT
$895 HAYES VALLEY
Ground Floor, Corner Ivy St.
& Buchanan. Neighborhood is
bad news, but just 1 'A blks.
from nice part of Hayes St.
Bldg. Victorian Ext. Modern
inside. Move-in Total $2237.00
Cat, Quiet Dog OK 567-4712
E05
Lg. One Bedrm Apt.
673 Oak $650 922-4916 eos
Oakland, Laney College Area
1-Bed, Deck, Ph: (415) 388-4369
SAN FRANCISCO
$199 $45
per week aaily rate
single/double
• Close to Union Square
shopping, theatres,
restaurants • Parking Availa¬
ble • Convenient to BART,
MUNI, South of Market, Cas¬
tro Street • Recommended by
Model, AmEx and Frommer’s
Guides • Large Priv. baths,
T.V., phone, 24 hours con¬
cierge • Gay Management
PACIFIC BAY INN
520 Jones Street, San Francisco
415-673-0234
Special Potrero Hill
Top Floor View Condo
2BD/2BA
■ Gorgeous Panoramic Views
and Large, Private, Sunny Deck
■ Top Quality Finishes and All
Amenities: W/D, frplc, 2 pkg,
pool, tennis, spa, dishwasher,
micro, compactor, ice maker
■ Located in Gay-friendly Victoria
Mews Luxury Condo Complex
$1700 (415) 929-6996
Bunkhouse Apts.
419 Ivy
$550 1-bdrm. #27
$550 1-bdrm. #9
$500 Studio #25
$500 Studio #28
514 Hayes
$550 1-bdrm. #7
$500 Studio #10
501 Octavia
$500 Studio #3
$500 Studio #10
All units carpeted, shades and
curtains. 419 Ivy Street
San Francisco
Mon.-Fri. 1-6 p.m.
863-6262
1 - 800 - 974-9013
( 707 ) 869-9011
16315 MAIN STREET
GUERNEVILLE
The AIDS/HIV Life Center
A Proposed 5-story
AIDS Community Resource Center
FOR LEASE
# Ground floor street front single or mulit-tenant commercial
# Up to 3,499 Square Feet
For inquires and information leading to proposals, contact:
WILLIAM DRYPOLCHER
415-552-0129 Ext. 181
ZEPHYR REAL ESTATE
Proposal deadline: February 25.1994
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 28
MENTALS
HOTEL DAKOTA
“Western Hospitality, European Charm”
606 Post @ Taylor St.
near Union Square/Polk Street
m per night /H]C per week
per room | Y I / w per room
We have large, bright
rooms with color
T.V.'s, priv. baths,
fridge, microwave and
maid service.
( 415 )
931-7475
COMMUNITY
RENTALS
• Over 1300 Apts, flats &
houses each month.
• Vacancies in all city areas.
• 2 convenient offices.
• Open 7 days a week.
• Gay owned/Gay staffed.
552-9595
IVY HOTEL
$85 & Up Weekly
( 415 ) 863-6388
539 Octavia, S.F.CA 94102
B.A.R.
classifieds
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TRAVEL
TRAVEL FORECAST
TEL(41 5)788-7232 FAX 788 2839
March 1994 Departure
okyo . NONSTOP $499. Manila
saka .. 1 Y open $599. Saigon
angkok. 1 Y open $739. Bali
AX/Sao Paulo, 1 YR OPEN RETN
-We Also Carry Japan Rail Passes-
150 Powell St. 4209, S.F..CA 94102
$759.
$759.
VACATION
RENTALS
WANTED
COUNSELING
R0CKHEART RETREAT
2 BDRM, Russian River,
Cabin, Private, Fireplace, Hot
Tub, Hammock, Beautiful
Setting. $275.00 3 nt.
wknd, $550.00 per week.
Peter 626-1169
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2 BR, HF, DK FB $850 431-4314
E06
HOME 4 RENT/SALE
Spacious, 2 BDRM Home
Oakland-Diamond Heights
Hdwd Floors, Fenced Bkyd,
Huge Liv. Rm, W/D, Parking
Storage. Rent: $400/Rm/Mo.
+ Utils. 1st + last to move.
Sale: $145,000
Ellen @ 510-532-6853 toe
Hayes Valley
$675-Charming, Sm 1 BA Apt.
near Opera, Gym. Heat, water,
garg. Sm. Pets OK. 487-9956
E05
$825 Mint Hill 2 BDRM
NuKit, BA, W/W, W/D, Parking
Avail. 861-2860 eo6
Mt. Davidson, $400 + % Util, Ig
Br + Prvt Kit & BA in Hse, W/D,
Nr CCSF + BART. 587-8882
Sacramento
Enclosed Gated Complex
Large 1 & 2 Bdrms, Heated
Spa, Trans., Shop. 3536 Watt
Ave., $400-450. (916) 486-8958
Cole Valley-Frederick St.
2 Bedrooms Apt. for 2
Sunny-Garden View
Quiet, Clean — $1200
415-564-6671
707-942-0212
HAWAII
Waterfall Valiev Mountain Views
From this Beautiful north shore
2-bedroom vacation rental on
the Garden Island of Kauai.
Two minutes from world-famous
windsurfing Anini Beach, and five minutes
from nude sunbathing on Secret Beach.
An ideal place for a Dream vacation in this
1,100 sq ft rental situated on 1/2 acre of
tropical splendor, all beautifully furnished,
with glassed-in Panoramic views from
each room. Daily, weekly, monthly rates.
Call Thomas (808) 828-1626.
FOR SALE
Mazda Miata '90, PKA
Custom Pink, $12K. 558-9575
84 SAAB 900T
Excellent Cond.
ALL EXTRAS INCL.
PHONE, CD, LEATHER
SUN ROOF, ETC.
Best Offer Ovr
$5400 - MUST SEE!
Mess @ 861 1505
for sale:
CELLO:
Hand-carved,
Signed and Numbered
Beautiful Intonation,
Excellent Condition.
Must see to believe.
Includes: Carrying Case,
Bow, Music Stand, Scale
Books and Various
Accessories.
$1500.00
Call: 252-0320.
WANTED
JAPANESE TRANSLATION AND
VOCABULARY.
Bi or gay: native language; well qualified.
English to Japanese and reverse
translations of personal communications.
Discretion and confidentiality needed.
Informal vocabulary drill to complement
beginning conversation study. SF base.
Pager: 303-4032: Fax : 648-3178
RESEARCH
HIV+ SOLE-SOURCE
Nutritional Study. Wgt. Loss
& Diarrhea, 3-4 a Day. $300-
$800 Stipend Paid. 14-28
Days. Call Andrew 476-3670
LEATHER MEN WANTED
We re looking for hot,
hard MEN! Showcase
your stuff for magazines
or videos. Five time
award winning
photographer,
Jim Wigler.
$ $ 974-1995 $ $
Palm Spring
Villa: Pool/Spa Tennis
$395/Wk. (909) 924-1371 eq 6
Club Ex-Network
with members around the world
is the first Gay & Lesiban Home
Exchange/Hospitality Club. Stay
free in member's homes around
the world. Free Brochure/Mem¬
bership Application — Call
1-800-787-0010 roe
PARADISE
On the sands of Wakiki
Bch. 1 BDRM Condo, 1 Blk from
Granite Tops fully
equipped kitchen W/D, drop
dead ocean view, Fax, parking.
Available 2/27. Call for weekly
and monthly rates.
(213) 466-4070 eob
Substance Abuse Counselor:
Group and indiv recovery counsel¬
ling to gay/bi men in outpatient
clinic. Required: relevant degree or
equiv exp; strong doc skills;
knowledge re: substance abuse,
HIV, gay/bi men, multicultural. If
recovering, 5 yrs C&S req. 40 hrs,
$22,000 plus ben. Start ASAP.
Ltr and resume to: Stephen Man¬
ning, PhD, Exec Director, 18th
Street Services, 217 Church St.,
SF 94114. AA/EOE
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Must know Windows 3.1, must be
comfortable solving computer
challenges, must be able to write,
spell & type. Must be punctual,
honest & have a “can-do” attitude.
PIT, flex hrs. $8/hr.
TITAN Productions 441-1211
Asst. Wanted
Busy Exec, is looking for a young man
to assist his housekeeper. Must be
responsible, clean and neat. Flexible
hours. Student pref. Send Responses
to: 838 Market St., 4th Floor,
S.F., 94102. Attn: Brad
Writers Wanted
Freelance feature writers wanted for
the Bay Area Reporter. Please send
your clips or sample stories to:
Features Department, Bay Area Re¬
porter. 395 9th Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103.
Excellent Soloflex, Hurry!
$400 o.b.o. Cash. Brad 431-9351
LOVE IS BLIND
So I don't need mag/video
collection. $20/6 tapes
$2/10 mags. 435-7799 9a-9p
XXX VIDEO MODELS
See Ad Under People
Allen Productions eu
Telecommunications Tech.
Exp. person needed to work
on large T-1 voice & data
network. Work in SF,
excellent pay & benefits.
Call Jim (415)984-7700 eo?
NURSES
T.N.B.S.
San Francisco's only gay
operated nursing service.
RN'S NEEDED
ICU, CCU, PICU, OR ER
OR TECHS, AND CNA'S, HHA'S
1255 Post St., Suite 810
SF CA 94109
415-567-5120 eob
Video Crew: Lavender Lounge
No pay, big fun! 337-4921 eo6
DENTAL ASSTS
Vallejo Office Exp. Pref.
Fax Resume (707) 644-2233
B.A.R. Classifieds
get results!!
(415) 861-5019
RETAIL SALES
Friendly, aggressive, well groomed men &
women sales associates needed for #1
adult video/gift stores.
Various S.F. locations, $6.00 per hour
+ commissions. Excellent advancement
opportunities available.
(415) 495-6402.
Between 1-3 pm ONLY for appointment.
OUTREACH WORKER: for West Addition
Afr Am. for gay/bi male substance
abusers. Street-based HIV & drug educa¬
tion. Req: relvnt degree/exper, effective
w/target pop, know HiV, substance
abuse, documentation. Start immed.
$20,000/40 hrs. w/excellnt benefits. If
recovering, 2 yrs. C&S desired. Resume
& letter to: Exec Dir, 18th Street Services,
217 Church St., SF 94114. AA/EOE
RETAIL CLERK
Clerk for busy Castro Area retail video
store. Must be friendly, self-motivated,
energetic, and competent. Need work
refs. Full-time and flexible day and eve¬
ning hours and weekends. Starts at
$6.50 per hour. Pick up applicatiion at
4141 18th Street.
InThe 1990 s
Only Proven Leaders Will Survive
Join us. No one is better prepared to help
you serve your clients than IDS.
A single-minded focus on doing what’s right
for our clients allowed IDS to prosper in the
turbulent 1980s. When you put your clients’ in¬
terests first, success follows.
_ During the last five years, IDS has led with an
AnAnwonExm^jm outstanding record of sales and earnings
HjS S growth. Our commitment to financial
■Ml planning, and thoughtful, prudent
mangement of our clients’ assets, positions us
for continued success in the 1990s.
l or more information, call
IDS Financial Services
San Francisco/Marin (415) 492-8222
Peninsula (415)593-9170
Equal Opportunity Employer M K I)
America’s Leading Financial Planning Company
TRAVEL/SALES
Uniglobe, the industry
leader in corporate
travel is looking for
corporate sales reps for
our SF office. No exp.
nec. Full company
training. Travel benefits,
Comm, & bonus. 415-346-8877
HOUSEKEEPER
Responsible, Honest, Hard
worker needed 3 half-days
weekly to clean, do laundry,
run errands, for a
gay male hshld in SF. Must
have exl. refs. Send ltr.
with Exp. to Mr. Winston,
555 DeHaro, Box 210
SF, CA 94107. Eos
Men By Balducchi
Magazine Layouts, Extremely
Well Hung/Muscular
Models. Top Salary 647-8089
Home Health Care
Experienced Only
LVN's RN's
642-1406
Call for Appt.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
TRANSFORMING ATTITUDES,
FEELINGS & BEHAVIORS
□c
DAVE
COOPERBERG
LIC #MFC12549
• Improve Self-Esteem
• Develop Meaningful Relationships
• Change Life-Long Patterns
• Move Beyond Fear & Grief
• Become More Fully Alive
• Individual & Couples Work •
• GAY MEN’S IN-DEPTH CHANGE
GROUP— Thursdays: Over 14 years
running. A powerful and effective
group providing both the challenge and
support to transform your life. Co-led
by Pedro Rojas.
(415) 431-3220
Over 20 Years Serrving the Bay Area
Individual Psychotherapy
and Couples Counseling.
Castro/Noe St. Frank Banks
MFCC intern IMF21119
Reasonable Fees 406-0411
Sup A Clemenes PL4919 eos
THIS COULD BE YOUR
CLASSIFIED ADI!
BUSINESS
SERVICES
Alexander & Williams
Word Processing/Secretarial Services
• Tape Transcription
• Resumes • Correspondence
• All Business Documents
GaryR. Williams
447 Battery Street, Suite 300
San Francisco California 94111
(415) 773-8249
(415) 433-3359 (FAX)
Macintosh
~^| Training &
Consultation
Richard Burton 626-2620
Computer Help !!!
Setup, Tutoring & General help
IBM, DOS, Windows
Mode ms, BB’s a specialty!
Richard
(415) 621-RICH
(7424)
ESTATE PLANNING
& PROBATE
Wills, Trusts &
Powers of Attorney
Real Estate & Business
Tom Rodgers Attorney at Law
Castro Office 861*0516
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS?
Personal • Business • Bankruptcy
Chapter 13 • Chapter 11
Free Initial Consultation
20 Years of Experience
Over 1000 Cases
864-0449
Walter R. Netion » Law Office
BANKRUPTCY
★ Stop Lawsuits and
Foreclosures
★ Free Initial Consultation
★ Legal Fees From $195.00-
Payments Arranged
★ 10 Years Experience
STOP CREDITOR HARASSMENT
863-1417
SCOTT V. SMITH, ATTORNEY
Convenient Castro-Market Location
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 29
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TAX
DIRECTORY
LICENSED
MOVERS
HAULING
UPKEEP & RENOVATIONS
S5SS*
-SINCE1972-^ ^j[
Experienced in Electrons Filing
Same Day Service on Most Returns
FOUR RETURN PREPARERS:
George • Christina • Brenda • Harry
Everyone Welcome
( 415 ) 387-6980
6033 GEARY BLVD. (at 25th Avenue)
SAN FRANCISCO 94121
Tax Time
Advertise your
tax service in our
tax directory.
Call David
861-5019
for rates.
9 "D. & As&omtea
'Beekkeepiwj S mice.
For Individual and Small
Companies (Income Tax,
Bookkeeping, Payroll).
Phone: (415)647-7654
★ Since 1983 ★
Matthew R. Perry Tax and
Business Consulting
SCHED. “K" SC RED. “C" ELEC. FILING
1040 $23.00 $23.00 $23.00
540 $12.00 $12.00 $12.00
SCHED “A T ' $23.00 SOWED. *‘C“ $32.00
ELEC. FIUNG $25.00
COMP. FEE $10.00 $10.00 $10-0 0
TOTAL $$$.00 $77.00 $70.00
Call For Information
(415) 861-4132
Consumer AH«lrt Raglstutkm Wumbtr P-32608
INSTRUCTION
FRENCH CLASS
For beginners starting February
7th. Small group. 100% French
atmosphere. 10% off with this
ad. Call (415) 362-3666,
FRENCH CLASS-School of
French and Translation Service,
500 Sutter Street.
This could be your
classified ad!!!
call (415) 861-5019
LICENSED
MOVERS
Eat. 1973
Cal P.U.C.T. 140305
Office & Household
Moving Services
Low Rates
VISA • Mastercard *
567-6146
PW.A Discount
Experienced gentle movers
of valued possessions
Full Service Moving
Free Estimates — Storage
1 (800) 794-4755
(415)8214755
CAL-T-174719 GAY OWNED
B.A.R.
classifieds
get results!!
Gall
(415) 861-5019
" When you have
to be sure
that your move
is right "
Specializing in offices
and households.
Licensed • Insured
GEMINI
MOVERS
(415) 558-9926
(CAL. T1428 74)
STARLITE
Moving & Storage
Complete storage facilities.
Low rates.
Office &. household.
Expert piano movers.
Licensed &> fully insured.
822-4721
Gay owned & operated
(CALT 174-390)
NOW AVAILABLE
PROFESSIONAL
MOVING SERVICES
— Household
—Corporate
—Office & Industrial
"Keep It In The Family"
Russ Pepin
Menlo/Allied Van Lines
(415) 321-6071
H- (415) 252-0434
PUC —T133275 ICC MC 15735
-Reliable Relocations-
2 men, $ 52/hr. most jobs.
Large Enel. Truck. 621-5164 Ei7
Homo Truck Driving Man
861-0569 776-4495
David-Dave eos
ECONOMICAL MOVING
Fast, friendly, careful
$ 28/hr. Andrew 752-6016 eis
★ -*2 Men-Truck Cheap-* ★
Fast Move. Louis 474-5377 eo6
-Reliable Relocations-
2 men, $ 52/hr. most jobs.
Large Enel Truck. 621-5164 eos
Careful and Reliable
Light Hauling $ 20/hr.
359-5122_ eos
★ Hauling, etc. 441-1054 ★ Ei 2
Nob Haul - $25 Min- 552-4350
Moving and Hauling $25/hr.
Jess 621-8112 eos
My Truck For Hauling Or
Dumping. $20/hr. 333-1 577eo7
Haul Basement Home
Furnishing, Cheap, Fast
Call Lou 992-1807 eos
UPKEEP &
RENOVATIONS
□ □□ 051,639407
□ filfilUl
□lleMasters 0E®
Ceramic - Marble - Granite
Bathrooms - Kitchens - Entries
Floors - Shower Pans - Decks
1-800-510-TILE
Free Estimates
Serving S.F. and the East Bay
David Johnson 1-800-510-8453
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Carpentry, Remodel &
Dry Rot Repair
Lie. # 653723
750-0836
Martin
HAULING
-Reliable 621-5164-
Also Palm Springs/LA Runs eo6
Small Haul or Move
$25/hr. or w/helper $35
771-7902/Bpr. 207-0575 eos
ROOFING
All types-complete or patch
Quality work since 1981
state lie #569521-references
North Cal 333-3701
CAS HARDWOOD CO.
Hardwood Floors
Beautifully
Sanded, Stained, Finished
Quality Work
Free Estimate 285-3405
(Lie tt6138711
• Additions
• Kitchens
• Baths
• Decks/Stairs
• Termite Repair
• Windows/Doors
• Tiling
• Dry Rot Repair
• Electrical &
Plumbing
• Seismic Upgrades
Residential and Commerical
I Free Estimates ■ Dependable
■ References ■ Affordable
State License # 631216
»urad PL & PD 553-7712
Allen’s Painting
Int./Ext.
Free Estimate
752-0927
Castro District Electrical Contractor
Phone: 415.647.9473
License No. 664030
Woman Owned
This could be your
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Hardwood Floors
• Install & Finish
• Bleach/White Stain
Specialist
Craftcare 221-2303
(Lie. » 676013)
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
M&M MAINTENANCE
Quality Remodeling & Repairs
Carpentry • Electrical
Plumbing
Sheet Rock • Texture Matching
Painting • Prep Work
Tile • Vinyl
Safisfaction Guaranteed
MARK 441-8453
Free Estimates • References • Fair Rates
V 17 Years Experience A
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
CARPENTRY
CERAMIC TILES
Call Skip - 487-6260
HOMEWOOD BUILDERS LTD.
|§S| •
f A WISE CHOICE FOR ^
I ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
S 822-6818
^ LIC HO. 367089 J
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• FULL SERVICE
• NEW CONSTRUCTION
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• TENANT IMPROVEMENT
• REMODEL X
• STRUCTURAL UPGRADE *
• RESTORATION
• CUSTOM INTERIORS
(415) 584-3080
FREE ESTIMATES
GENERAL CONTRACTOR LIC. 608 983
INTELLIBUILD
• Roofing • Building
• Basements • Extra Rooms
• Roof Decks • Sound Proofing
• Skylights • Gutters • Sheet Rock
• Total Service Since '65 •
( 415 ) 978-9375
MATT’S INTERIOR
PAINTING & WALLPAPER
* Reasonable
* Excellent References
* Free Estimates & Color
Consultation
* 17 Yrs. Experience
* Faux Finishing
* Vacancies Cali: 641-7475
CAS PAINTING CO*
Quality Interior & Exterior
VACANCIES OUR SPECIALTY
FREE ESTIMATES
285-3405
(Lie # 613871)
Castro Gutters and
Painting Company
Remodeling and Painting
Interiors — Exteriors
15 Years — Local References
FREE ESTIMATES
ADAM 824-7787 / 957-5878
aries ELECTRIC co.
Skilled TROUBLE SHOOTER
Reliable, Efficient, Professional, Com¬
municative. Proud of results (Refs given).
Free bids quickly by appointment. 23 yrs
exp. All Commercial, residential or old
Victorian work inc. patch & paint. Rea¬
sonable rates, high quality. Insured PL.
fis P.D. bonded Lie #273651
John A. Peters, aqa EfQQQ
24 hour 7 days
FREE ESTIMATES
(415) 282-6447
REHNISHINQ, INSTALLATIONS
PROFESSIONAL QUALITY
TWO HANDY MEN
Interior Painting and
General Carpentry
Rob & Chris
(415) 673-6751
QUALITY CARPENTRY
Decks, Stairs
Concrete and Fencing Works
Kitchen and Bath Remodel
Painting and Tile
FREE ESTIMATE
759-1315
GET RESULTS BY USING
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KEN WALTER’S
PAINTING
Quality Work
Impeccable References
Reasonable Rates
415-752-9759
-1 QUALITY
INTERIOR & EXTERIOR
PAINTING
Residential — Commercial
CONCEPTS Specializing in Victorians
in color 647-7070
License # 497303 U*T / I \J ! \J
647-7070
• PAINTING. PAPER HANGING
CROWN AND BASE MOULDINGS
CARPENTRY, TILE
Grand Finishes
MATT NIKITAS (415) 553-7734
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 30
UPKEEP & RENOVATIONS
SERVICES
L'ltiiiiii nmi ij
ALL AMERICAN
PAINTING and CONSTRUCTION
Quality Interior and Exterior Work
Residential • Commercial
y[Ua#669504 (415) 885-6531itj
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The Electrician
Local Contractor
Electrical - General
Remodel - upgrades
intercoms alarms
( 415 ) 252-8574
UC-# 394787
FOUNDATION
WORK
DECKS
AND STAIRS
FREE
ESTIMATES
References
Available
California License # 525753
FREE DELIVERY
($50. 0# Value)
Any Purchase Over $200.00
• Glass Tops •
• Mirrors •
• Windows •
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VOL. XXIV NO. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1994
Me'ShellNdegeOcello on Music,
Madonna and Lesbian Chic
Upwardly Mobile
Me'Shell Ndege Ocello
by Wayne Hoffman
M e’Shell Ndege
Ocello is not the
easiest person in
the world to inter¬
view. Unlike most recording
artists, she’s somewhat shy
and reticent to toot her own
horn. But she’d better get
used to the spotlight because
she’s made an auspicious
splash with her debut album,
Plantation Lullabies (Maver¬
ick Records).
“Listen to the record,” she
said in an interview from her
home in New York. “The mu¬
sic is much more interesting
than me.”
But Me’Shell sells herself
short. In a field where artists
wait years to be discovered,
Her family's
surname was
Johnson, but
she chose
NdegeOcello,
which means
"free like a
bird" in
Swahili.
Me’Shell has made her
recording debut at the young
and enviable age of 24. And
in a business where creativity
is often considered an indus¬
try risk, Me’Shell has broken
new musical ground with a
gritty hybrid of jazz, funk and
hip-hop. Add to that the fact
that she’s an outspoken black
lesbian and you have a legend
in the making.
Her sudden success is no
great surprise. She grew up
in a musical family: her father
was a U.S. Army band leader,
and her older brother played
with go-go bands for years.
Her family encouraged her to
pursue music early in life,
but, said Me’Shell, she resist¬
ed it for years, until she got
into high school and found
that she could no longer resist
her muse.
“I didn’t want anything to
do with music,” she recalls.
“But one day, a friend of my
brother’s left his bass at the
house and I just started fid¬
dling around. It was as natu¬
ral as breathing. I fell in love
with it.”
After high school, Me’Shell
studied in Howard Universi¬
ty’s jazz program and began
occasional work with local
groups in her native Washing¬
ton D.C. Her collaboration
with go-go band Rare
Essence proved fruitful, as it
led to her first solo projects,
which gained instant critical-
recognition: in 1990 she took
home three Wammies (D.C.’s
local music awards) for her
solo work. That’s when things
really started to take off.
Me’Shell moved to New
York and began to expand
her musical talents. She be¬
gan playing all her own in¬
struments and doing her own
vocals. “I got tired of asking
people to come and they
wouldn’t show up,” she
protested, “That’s why I play
everything.”
At first she started playing
small clubs around New
York. After positive reviews
hit print she began searching
for a record label. Tommy
Boy found her, but faced with
little money and too many
artistic restrictions, the rela¬
tionship didn’t last long. She
turned down the one offer
they made. Disillusioned.and
burned out, Me’Shell was
ready to give up on her
young career.
But true to form, she took
control of her life and turned
things around. She started by
changing her last name. Her
family’s “government sur¬
name” was Johnson, but she
chose NdegeOcello, which
means “free like a bird” in
Swahili.
“I have respect for my fam¬
ily, she explained, “but as a
person, I think you travel
through life, and sometimes
you change, and there are
some things associated with
my old name that I’d like to
get past.”
Madonna
With a new name and out¬
look, things finally took off,
and just in the nick of time.
“Last year, I was ready to quit
music totally and become a
barber. But just when I got
into barber school, all this
stuff started happening.”
The “stuff’ she’s talking
about amounted to a deal big¬
ger than she’d ever imagined:
an offer to work with Madon¬
na. Me’Shell became the first
woman to sign on the diva’s
own Maverick label. It hap¬
pened so quickly that
Me’Shell didn’t have the time
to pinch herself.
“I did a gig on Thursday in
New York,” with a Maverick
agent in the audience, and
Monday morning I flew out
to LA to meet Madonna,” she
explained. “She said she’d
like to meet me and that she
liked my music, so I went out
there and we ate rice cakes
and gum balls and talked. I
was nervous, overwhelmed. It
was like ‘Dang. This is fuck¬
ing Madonna!’ But she’s really
a nice person. She’s my boss,
you know.”
Madonna seemed to appre¬
ciate Me’Shell’s no-nonsense
attitude about being openly
lesbian. “With Madonna, I
don’t think she cared. She
heard the music before she
even met me, and signed me
up before she even knew, so I
don’t think that had any im¬
pact,” said Me’Shell.
But she has gotten plenty
of flak from others about her
gayness. “This is a very ma¬
cho system. Musicians make
their little comments,” she
said. “But I see it as their ig¬
norance. It has nothing to do
with me.”
Other performers are not
so bold. Many closeted musi¬
cians worry about losing the
support of their labels and lis-
(Continued on page 41)
Politics
by Noreen C. Barnes
W hat is the impact
of the culture of
the ’90s on the
female body?
What does it mean to be a
woman in a time of increas¬
ing corporeal alterations, vio¬
lations, inscriptions, codings,
fetishizing and objectifying?
To control one’s body is to
control one’s life. Our bodies
are our biographies, our so¬
cial, political and sexual iden¬
tities.
How culture defines and
represents the female body is
the focus of “The Illustrated
Woman: The Second Annual
Conference on Feminist Ac¬
tivism and Art,” a collabora¬
tion of women artists, ac¬
tivists, film and video artists,
scheduled for this weekend,
February 4th and 5th at the
Center for the Arts Forum at
Yerba Buena Gardens. The
event is sponsored by SF
Camerawork and The LAB.
In conjunction with “The Il¬
lustrated Woman,” The LAB
will present a group multi-
media exhibition by women
presenters entitled Address¬
ing Herself.
Bodies in question
Art as activism is a central
topic of the conference: partic¬
ipants will examine the
means by which feminist art
subverts the “biomedical
politicization” of the female
body. To this end, Orlan, a
surgically-altered Parisian
artist, will present her ongo¬
ing self-transformational per¬
formance/lecture, Operation-
Reussie and, approaching the
idea of the body from an alto¬
gether different angle, Carla
Kirkwood will present an in¬
terdisciplinary solo perfor¬
mance of adolescent resis¬
tance, Bodies of Evidence.
Excerpts from both Michelle
Handelman’s Women on the
Edge, a documentary about
women in the leather S/M
community, and New York
artist Kathy High’s video Un¬
derexposed, the Temple of
the Fetus, will be shown.
Opening night keynote
speeches will be delivered by
performer/writer Sapphire,
filmmaker Barbara Hammer,
visual artists Hung Liu, Millie
Wilson, and media artist Shu
Lea Cheang. Kirkwood’s per¬
formance will follow.
Saturday’s panels include
“Frankenstein’s Daughters,
Hardy Heroines and Body
Morphs,” a discussion among
artists, theorists and writers
about “issues facing: women
artists who represent their
own images, histories, com¬
munities and desires through
autobiography, fiction, perfor¬
mance and visual art.” Pan-
(Continued on page 40)
Orlan and the Art of the Radical Makeover
All the World's an O.R.
by Dorian Gray
I t all started in 1978
with an ectopic preg¬
nancy, one that occurs
outside the uterus. The
woman had a busted Fallopi¬
an tube and was hemorrhag¬
ing internally. There was no
choice. They were going to
have to operate. Fast.
Orlan, the woman in ques¬
tion, was organizing an inter¬
national symposium on per¬
formance and video at the
time. So she did what any en¬
terprising performance artist
with a burst Fallopian tube
would do: she got a video
camera into the operating
room and had an epidural
block (local anaesthetic) ad¬
ministered, which allowed
her to direct the filming of
her own medical emergency.
Each tape as it came out of
the camera was taxied to the
symposium.
Surgical poetics
Today the French perfor¬
mance artist describes that
creative choice as “a fight
against the inexorable, the
programmed, everything
which one doesn’t decide for
oneself. I tried to reverse the
situation in order to master it.
To act as though it were my
decision.” Sounding like the
professor of Beaux Arts that
she is, Orlan explained, “This
is the recuperation of life as
an aesthetic phenomenon.
This is art and life carried to
their extremes.”
Fifteen years later, Orlan
is back on the operating table.
Only now instead of waiting
for the random anatomical
disaster to strike, she’s volun-
(Continued on page 41)
Second of Two Sections
OutThere
The Annals of Queerdom
by Orland Outland
Part of the Bobby Ray
Inman story that didn’t
make headlines: The nominee
for the secretary of defense
post blamed a vicious media
for prompting his withdrawal,
and he said that in addition to
the usual prying, three differ¬
ent reporters had asked him
if he was gay. The Washing¬
ton Post said that “there had
been a whispering campaign
about his sexual orientation
after a 1980 episode in which
he refused to revoke the secu¬
rity clearance of a gay man at
the National Security Agen¬
cy.” Inman said, “When I
made the decision, a very
pragmatic one, to keep the
gay employee on at NSA,
there were lots of allegations,
whispers, suggesting that I
must be of comparable per¬
suasion, else I wouldn’t have
made that decision. Those [ru¬
mors] had come from other
agencies as well. All of the
law enforcement and security
agencies were adverse to the
decision.” Well, it looks like
we just lost the one candidate
for defense secretary who
would have stood up to any
and all pressure from the right
on gays in the military.
He'd have given Lestat a bite
to remember.
It’s time for another
episode of Now It Can Be
Told, a feature of this column
every time a celebrity kicks
the bucket and the details of
his sex life come out. In Chap¬
ter MCMIV, The New York
Observer noted that on a re¬
cent episode of the cable-ac¬
cess show Party Talk, Vil¬
lage Voice dish maven
Michael Musto was “drop¬
ping heavy hints about recent¬
ly overdosed River
Phoenix's possible sexual
ambiguity.” Had he lived, that
certainly would have made
his climactic scenes with
Tom Cruise in Interview
With the Vampire more in¬
teresting, no?
What this town needs is a
good tabloid, with headlines
like “Toddler Terminated in
Tenderloin Turf War!” Bar¬
ring that, a weekly paper like
the New York Observer,
which reads like the old Spy
(back when it was funny). The
Observer was present at a
NYC auction benefiting Gay
Games IV, where Sotheby’s
premier auctioneer, Robert
Woolley, gaveled off various
treasures, including (for
$4,000) a day on the set of
S.F.’s Falcon Studios. “You
can be the fluffer,” he said to
stir up bidding (though I am
told Falcon doesn’t use
Buffers, actually). Woolley
himself dropped $2,000 for a
dinner date with Falcon star
Paul Bain, but insisted he’d
be having “just dinner” with
his prize, even though some¬
body told him that Bain “puts
out.” Woolley showed the Ob¬
server Bain’s card, which de¬
scribed him as an employee
of “Corporate One Executive
Assistance.” No comment re¬
quired from moi on that one.
Sharon Stone: an inspiration
to lesbians (brothers, that is)
everywhere.
I Confess: In my secret oth¬
er life, I masquerade occasion¬
ally as a secretary. So I sim¬
ply had to go see The Five
Lesbian Brothers’ play, The
Secretaries, at Theater
Rhinoceros. And I enjoyed it
thoroughly, especially Peg
Healey's performance as
“Susan Curtis,” the Sharon
Stone -like leader of a cult of
Slim-Fast addicted secretaries
at an Oregon lumber mill,
who knock off a lumberjack
once a month in an orgy of
blood and pizza. It’s Twin
Peaks meets The Stepford
Wives, with a touch of Bell,
Book and Candle thrown in
for good measure. You have
to see a play when it has a
line as priceless as “We don’t
kill them because they’re bad
— we kill them because we’re
bad.” It plays through Feb. 19;
call Rhino at 861-5079 for
tix/info.
There are all kinds of ar¬
guments against gay mar¬
riage: “natural law,” “Western
.tradition,” etc. But Rod and
Bob Jackson-Paris may be
the best argument against it,
if only because these spokes¬
men for the sacred institution
are about the most vapid cou¬
ple this side of Pat and
Vann a. The former body¬
builder and the former mod¬
el, who now star together in
soft-porn “art photography”
books, have written their sto¬
ry (with no ghostwriter!) and
called it Straight From the
Heart (subtitled, “A Love
Story”). Boring people have
rights, too, but does that in¬
clude the right to foist their
boring story on the rest of us?
Note to Bob and Rod: your
private life is your business,
and if you chose to live a clos¬
eted lie for all those years,
well, it was your immortal
souls in torment and not
mine. However, don’t come
blathering to me about how
now you want to be role mod¬
els for gay and lesbian youth
when the fact is that you’d
still be in the closet today if
you hadn’t been forced out.
Sorry, but that doesn’t say
“role model” to me.
Lip-synching Scott Thomp¬
son, not a figure skater but
still gay.
That darn Philadelphia -
it just keeps making news.
The lead item in Variety’s
“Buzz” column last week was
the reaction of openly gay
comic and Kids in the Hall
star Scott Thompson to the
film. Angry about the trend
of giving gay starring roles to
straight actors, Thompson
said, “I feel like this is our
Color Purple. It seemed like
a movie about black people
starring whites ... I don’t re-
William Hurt: No Carmen
Miranda.
call any gay roles played by
gay men.” Thompson cited
William Hurt's perfor¬
mance in Kiss of the Spider
Woman as a typically inaccu¬
rate performance: “I’m sorry,
I lived with a Brazilian queen
— that was no Brazilian
queen.” And Tom Hanks'
opera scene? “I’m an opera
queen, and if you’re an opera
queen listening to your fa¬
vorite aria, aren’t you lip-
synching? Lip-synching is the
most popular gay sport, after
figure skating.” ▼
Call my Psychic Dish Net¬
work at 995-2342. Believe it
or not, I can predict with
amazing accuracy what the
best gossip will be in next
week’s column!
Killer quintet: The Five Lesbian Brothers play murderous high¬
haired secretaries in their hit offering currently at Theatre
Rhino.
Opera
Harvey Gets an Opera
The San Francisco Opera,
Houston Opera and New
York City Opera have co-com-
missioned a new work based
on the life and death of Har¬
vey Milk, San Francisco’s
first openly gay elected public
official. The opera, entitled,
Harvey Milk, features music
by Stewart Wallace and a li¬
bretto by Michael Korie. The
production will be co-pro¬
duced by the Houston, New
York and San Francisco
opera companies and will re¬
ceive its world premiere in
Houston in January 1995.
Harvey Milk will be pre¬
sented by the New York City
Opera in the spring of 1995
and will be.presented by the
San Francisco Opera during
the Fall 1996 opera season.
Composer Stewart Wallace
and librettist Michael Korie
have collaborated on other
musical projects, namely,
Where’s Dick?, which pre¬
miered at the Houston Opera
in 1989; Kabbalah, a ritual
opera for 10 performers,
which premiered at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music
in 1989; and a chamber opera
entitled Hopper’s Wife. ▼
Film
The Hamptons Hosts Film Festival
Suburban Melodramas
by Brandon Judell
T he Hamptons, that
exclusive mecca for
sugar daddies, lip¬
stick lesbians, art
fags and moneyed straights,
has recently been host to a
chi-chi film festival.
What are the Hamptons,
you say? For those not famil¬
iar with this prestigious East
Coast enclave, James Saslow,
author of Ganymede in the
Renaissance: Homosexuality
in Art and Society, and a
Hamptons’ renter, explains it
succinctly when he says the
Hamptons are where “gays
used to go 20 or 30 years ago
because they were too sedate
for the Fire Island life style.”
Gays are no longer so se¬
date, but we’re still going to
the Hamptons. Even dead
gays can’t resist the atmo¬
sphere, like famous New
York poet Frank O’Hara,
who is buried in a Hampton’s
cemetery at the feet of leg¬
endary abstract painter Jack-
son Pollock.
However, despite the
strong gay presence in the
Hamptons, its first interna¬
tional film festival was, by
far, the straightest in recent
memory. There was only one
gay-themed feature, Michael
(Zorba the Greek) Cacoyannis’
Up, Down and Sideways.
The plot: Maria (Irene Papas)
and her handsome gay son,
Stavros, share a passion for
opera and hot numbers. One
day amidst a traffic jam,
Stavros is mistakenly arrested
by the cops as a bank robber.
To escape the law, he hops
on the back of a motorcycle
driven by Anestis, a gym in¬
structor who claims to be
Maria Callas’ son. A three¬
some of sorts occurs among
the leads, which is spiced up
by a coterie of sailors, a
transvestite, and a mad night
at the opera. The vice-presi¬
dent of distribution for Aries
Film Releasing, T.C. Rice,
was at the festival searching
for films to buy. He critiqued:
“It’s a lot of laughs, but I
don’t know how wide a gen¬
eral audience it will appeal to.
On the other hand, it might
just have something infectious
about it that could catch on
for no real reason.”
Revamped 'Streetcar'
Also screened was A
Streetcar Named Desire, re¬
vamped with the four addi¬
tional minutes that were ex¬
cised years ago by censors. It
was being paraded about as if
a half-hour had been added.
So now Stella walks down
the steps sultrily. Perhaps
someone should mention Ten¬
nessee Williams’ overt
speeches about homosexuali¬
ty which never made it into
the film in the first place.
Still, this is a flick always
worth another viewing, no
matter how flimsy the excuse.
Gayness was apparent too
in a special series of docu¬
mentaries on artists, including
I Don’t Just Want You to
Love Me, on Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Larry Rivers’
Public and Private, plus
Paul Bowles: The Complete
Outsider. Noteworthy, too,
were the rather clever,
though straight, short films
by actors trying to stretch
their resumes with directorial
credits: Rob Morrow’s Silent
Alarm, Matthew Modine’s
When I Was a Boy and Daryl
Hannah’s very funny The
Last Supper, in which a little
girl uses a severed arm to rid
Mom of her new boyfriend.
All three stars/directors at¬
tended.
Of all the films shown,
however, the best were the
student films out of New
York University’s Tisch
School of the Art’s Depart¬
ment of Film, Television and
Video. More than 65 under¬
graduate and graduate stu¬
dent films from around the
Eastern half of the United
States were screened. The
subjects were so lavender-
tinged — homosexuality, drag
queens and AIDS — that one
need not worry about the fu¬
ture of gay U.S. filmmaking.
Camus flummoxed
The big disaster of the fes¬
tival was Luis Puenzo’s The
Plague, starring William
Hurt, Robert Duvall and Raul
Julia. Based on Camus’ fa¬
mous novel of the same
name, the subject of a city
ravished by a contagious dis¬
ease couldn’t be more rele¬
vant. But the project is
steeped in pretension and in¬
ept direction. You’ll want to
get vaccinated by the time it
ends.
But the true tour de force
of the four-day event was a
panel on film preservation
which included Martin Scors¬
ese and Steven Spielberg.
The two were witty, knowl¬
edgeable and one might even
say “humble.” Scorsese not¬
ed, “You know Billy Wilder
once said, ‘Ernst Lubitsch can
do more with a closed door
than a modern director can
do with an open fly.’” Spiel¬
berg admitted, “I think about
the audience too much. When
you think about the audience
too much, you stop thinking
about yourself — and you
wonder, well, how do I fit
into my own movies? Where
do I put myself? And recently
I’ve been making movies
where for the first time I
thought more about myself
than the people the film will
eventually play to — and I’ve
had a rather wonderful, per¬
sonal experience working this
way. It’s late in my life, but
better late than never.”
Scorsese, inspired, shared
too: “I saw many films as a
child because of having se¬
vere asthma. My mother and
father didn’t know what to do
with me, no sports or any¬
thing. The very first film I re¬
member seeing was Duel in
the Sun. My mother took me
to see it because she knew I
liked westerns and she was
particularly interested in see¬
ing it because the film had
been condemned by the
church. ‘I’ll take the kid.’ That
was just an excuse to watch
what they had termed ‘lust in
the dust.’ ”
So with openness like this,
maybe there’s need for anoth¬
er film festival soon?
“Not in the Hamptons!”
screamed fuming play¬
wright/activist Larry Kramer
a few hours later, pointing to
the crowds lining up outside a
movie theater, as he stalked
down the street. “I moved
here to escape crowds, to es¬
cape New Yorkers. Now look
at this town!”
We’re looking, Larry! But
now that the festival is over
and the vacation homes are
shuttered, and the boulevards
are covered with snow, you
can once again create — or
fume — in peace.
But not so for advertising
legend Jerry Della Femina
who helped sponsor the festi¬
val. There is a warrant out
for his arrest, not because he
helped unleash Abel Ferrara’s
horrid remake, Bodysnatch-
ers, on an unsuspecting pub¬
lic, but for placing pumpkins
in front of his food shop. Yes,
that’s right, pumpkins on dis¬
play. The powers that be in
East Hampton consider the
orange gourds a form of
unauthorized exhibition,
which is strictly forbidden in
these parts. In fact, The New
York Times quoted Mr. Del¬
la Femina as stating, “I never
knew you could go to jail for
flowers and pumpkins.” (Do
you think sodomy is a better
reason?)
Word has it that this
quaint, suburban to-do has
supplied the plot for Ferrara’s
next feature, a remake of the
1960’s Village of the
Damned. The working title:
Town of the Kramers. ▼
William Hurt was marooned in Luis Puenzo's film, The Plague,
based on Albert Camus' novel.
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 35
Dance
Susanne Linke/'Ruhr-Ort'
Industrial Movement
by Wendell Ricketts
D ance aficionados are
still chuckling over
the review that
famed New Yorker
critic Arlene Croce gave sev¬
eral years ago to a series of
European dance companies
then visiting New York.
Lamenting the influence of a
certain post-modern, post-ex¬
pressionist, post-something
Continental style on Ameri¬
can forms, Croce skewered
the likes of both Pina Bausch
and Maurice Bejart with a
blunt dismissal: “Eurotrash!”
Ms. Croce wouldn’t have
liked Susanne Linke’s Ruhr-
Ort either.
Ruhr-Ort — literally, “the
Ruhr place” — is Linke’s
eponymous homage to the in¬
dustrial and mining region on
the western edge of the for¬
mer West Germany that has
been her adopted home for
more than 20 years. Ruhr-
Ort received its San Francis¬
co premiere at the Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts on
January 26th and 27th.
Ruhr-Ort is meant to con¬
vey the “gritty” life of the
Ruhr’s working class — ma¬
chinists, assembly-line and
steel workers, miners, and
other laborers. Although
Linke originally intended the
piece to be a vehicle for her¬
self, she decided, after wit¬
nessing what the program
note calls the “inferno-like
spectacle of a steel plant,” to
write herself out of Ruhr-Ort
and turn it into a project for
an all-male company.
The stage for Ruhr-Ort i s
cavernous and dimly lit, so
that Linke’s seven dancers
are literally dwarfed by the
fuming, noisy pit that enclos¬
es them. It’s a kind of steel
mill cum coal mine; more
than anything it resembles
the bleak, vaporous planet in
the opening sequences of
Aliens.
The conceit of Ruhr-Ort i s
promising: Linke’s dancers
are dressed in standard-issue
work clothes and steel-toed
boots; at one point, each of
them cradles, balances, and
repeatedly drops an 80-pound
aluminum ingot. If they stag¬
ger under the weight, and if
their collars are soaked with
sweat, it is real staggering
and real sweat, not choreogra¬
phy or makeup.
On the one hand, one
needn’t struggle to recognize
the rather trite metaphor
Linke is engaged with here:
humankind swallowed up in
the maw of industrial
progress. The spirit-sucking
banality of working life in a
European version of Levit-
town.
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 36
On the other, Ruhr-Ort
does succeed in evoking a
kind of underworld in which
the male mysteries prevail.
Vulcan presides over this
landscape of smoke, fire, and
steel, and Linke is on to
something when she attempts
to grapple artistically with the
manifest maleness of her sub¬
ject.
But there is little that is
subtle about the piece. In its
early moments, strobe-like
flashes of light (provided by
an on-stage arc welder) illumi¬
nate the vast upstage area.
There, a group of metal lad¬
ders lean against the far wall.
Slowly, five dancers descend
them and make their way to
center stage, where, in uni¬
son, they attack an immense
piece of sheet metal with
sledgehammers. Immediate¬
ly, Linke establishes the
archetype of male instrumen¬
tality — and yet there is enor¬
mous futility in it: For all its
sound and fury, the workers’
prolonged hammering actual¬
ly produces no result.
Next, the dancers begin to
run in place on the sheet of
metal, which quakes and
clangs with every deafening
footfall. Linke’s recurrent use
of the running motif suggests
that she is to running what
choreographer Laura Dean is
to spinning; each is interested
in the kind of hypnotic beauty
that comes from the repeti¬
tion of movement.
For all of that, however,
Ruhr-Ort remains strangely
inarticulate — and so, on the
whole, do Linke’s dancers.
Her men grimace with
tongues extended like Maori
warriors; they gesture and
writhe, convulsed with tics.
They outshout and out-jabber
one another during their
work breaks; they parrot each
other’s gestures and phrases;
they greet one another’s mis¬
fortunes with the same
coarse, hearty laughter that
they bring to the inevitable
rounds of smutty locker-room
bragging.
But from the clangorous
opening sequence of dancers
slamming full tilt into sheet
metal with sledgehammers,
Ruhr-Ort has very little room
to grow toward any sort of
dramatic climax.
The result, then, is a kind
of muted depiction. Ruhr-Ort
has force but it does not have
power. It evokes, but it does
not evolve. One could legiti¬
mately say, in fact, that Ruhr-
Ort isn’t dance as much as it
is a collection of dance effects.
No doubt Linke has paid
fine tribute with Ruhr-Ort t o
the blue-collar ethos of her
home town. Beyond an obvi¬
ous documentary reverence,
however, she seems to have
had trouble locating a point
of view on her subject. ▼
Theatre
Star Turns
by Jerry Metzker
W hen Lanford Wil¬
son’s Burn This
opened on Broad¬
way in 1987, John
Malkovich gave a scenery-
chewing performance that re¬
duced his co-performers to
helpless rag dolls. Not so with
the Kudzu Theatre’s produc¬
tion currently playing at
Above Brainwash Theatre. In¬
stead of letting one character
run wild, director Reid Davis
has focused his attention on
the entire cast. He’s created a
whole on which no part is al¬
lowed a larger portion.
Certainly Phil Stockton’s
Pale has tremendous energy,
is as truculent as any charac¬
terization can be, and even
chews some scenery of his
own. But he is not alone. In
fact, next to Charla Chabot’s
multi-layered performance as
Anna, he takes a back seat.
Anna is a woman of few
words, at least in this play.
Her dance partner and best
friend Robbie has just been
killed in a freak boating acci¬
dent along with his gay lover,
leaving her suddenly alone
and lost. Her boyfriend, Bur¬
ton, (Greg Hoffman) lingers
on the fringes of her life, a
perpetual potential security
blanket, a retreat from the
constant upheaval that is a
dancer’s life.
Then Pale, Robbie’s
volatile and grieving older
brother, literally barges into
her apartment. Pale is even
lonelier than Anna, but dy¬
namic, sexual and frightening.
He awakens desires he never
knew she had, feelings that
both intrigue and repel her.
The two begin an intricate
and dangerous dance.
Wilson has laid the founda¬
tion for a contemporary
tragedy here, and as the pas¬
sion between Anna and Pale
increases, Chabot’s perfor¬
mance gets deeper. Even as
Anna physically and verbally
pushes Pale away, Chabot’s
body and soul long for him.
While speaking firmly, she
twists her fingers in uncer¬
tainty. When she curls up on
the sofa, she does so out of
the physical need for stability
and order in her suddenly un¬
wieldy world. In spite of her¬
self she is drawn to him.
But every tragedy does
not have a Larry (Ross Mar-
tineau), the wise-cracking, lov¬
able other gay roommate.
Larry is confidante, observer,
and miracle-worker. In spite
of not having much of a social
life of his own, he prevents
Anna and Pale from destroy¬
ing each other.
I have heard both positive
and negative assessments of
this play. Personally I’m torn.
While I applaud Wilson’s in¬
credible use of language and
stagecraft, I object to the con¬
trol he exerts over the action
of the play. Wilson did not
want to write a complete
tragedy, so he added Larry
and filled Burn This with
hope.
I’m not opposed to hope
and happy endings, but being
a contemporary playwright,
influenced by Beckett, the
hope is questionable. The
play concludes on a note of
uncertainty that is more an¬
noying than dramatically
compelling.
Still, terrific performers
are worth watching and Char-
la Chabot is terrific. ▼
Burn This
Above Brainwash Theatre
Through Feb. 12
995-4778
Film Clips
Theatre
Noir in Color
Red Rock West is a glossy,
noir-in-color drama starring
Nicholas Cage as a down-and-
out guy who’s mistaken for a
hit man (Dennis Hopper). To¬
tally broke, Cage can’t resist
taking a $5,000 payment for
killing a bar owner’s wife, but
doesn’t shoot her. After warn¬
ing her of the danger she’s in
(and making another deal),
Cage hightails it out of town,
only to be drawn back —
again and again — to the scene
of his non-crime. Like the
best of film noir, Red Rock
West has a convoluted, sus¬
penseful plot, a crackling
sense of humor, and stylish
visuals. Director John Dahl
has assembled something of a
David Lynch reunion here
with Cage, Hopper and Lara
Flynn Boyle, but his filmmak¬
ing is less affected and more
affecting.
At the Roxie (8634087)
★ ★ ★
Careening ’Gate'
M. Butterfly author David
Henry Hwang wrote Golden
Gate, about a San Francisco-
based FBI agent (Matt Dillon)
who knowingly ruins a Chi¬
nese man’s life — the agent ac¬
cuses him of Communist ties
in the 1950s — then years later
falls in love with the man’s
daughter (Joan Chen). It’s a
great premise for a drama (or
an opera), only Hwang and di¬
rector John Madden can’t de¬
cide what they’re making —- a
period piece, film noir
homage, a post-modern satire
of ’50s FBI movies, or a social
critique. Gate is nicely shot,
but careens from the didactic
to the soap operatic, never
quite finding its stride.
Hwang and Madden seem un¬
aware when they’ve said
something visually, for they
are constantly repeating ver¬
bally things they’ve shown 10-
15 minutes earlier. Then
there are just plain loopy
lines like (from Chen:) “I
wanted to ruin your life, but
not like this.” And (from Dil¬
lon:) “Some loves are impossi¬
ble, but they are loves just the
same.” Indeed.
At the Bridge Theatre
(751-3212)
★ ★ ★
Out of Gas, Synch
I rarely leave a movie I’m
writing about until the end
credits have played out, but
Car 54, Where Are You? was
a special case: I left ten min¬
utes after its inept, out-of-
touch, out-of-synch, out-of-gas
opening sequence made it
clear that this was a big mess,
one that would only get much
worse, one that might make
the new Richard Gere/Sharon
Stone vehicle Intersection
look like Citizen Kane. To
test my theory, I slipped over
to the Regency II, and I was
right. Scary. Anyone who
thinks Sharon Stone can act
(we already know her co-star
can’t) is cordially invited to
watch this pic — Lolita Davi¬
dovich blows her off the
screen.
Miss ’em both.
—Daniel Mangin
ACT's'Uncle Vanya'
Scandalous
Revelations
by John F. Karr
W hoa! A sexy, near¬
ly scandalous pro¬
duction of
Chekhov’s Uncle
Vanya — who’d have thought
it possible! Or knew that
Vanya could be as immedi¬
ate and physical as the ver¬
sion directed by ACT Artistic
Director Carey Perloff, now
at the Marines Memorial The¬
atre. Did we even think for a
moment that this hoary old
play could be shocking until
Ms. Perloff dusted it off, had
Paul Schmidt translate it into
a vernacular that catches the
snappy freshness the original
must have had in 1899, and
staged it in a production that
seems, in all its revelatory as¬
pects, a world premiere?
Here is a Vanya so fresh
that it elicits not only belly
laughs but also gasps of disbe¬
lief over its sexuality and
playfulness — and, finally,
murmurs of assent from its
audience. And I saw it with
the famously complacent
blue-haired ladies of matinee
day at that.
Uncle Vanya is the story
of what happens to a group of
people when their lives are
restricted, in this instance, to
a barely thriving provincial
farm. Sexual need is great,
and unmet; ambitions and
dreams, also unmet, turn ran¬
corous; and love, both requit¬
ed and not, is reduced over its
own flame to a sadly con¬
gealed morass of short-circuit¬
ed passion.
It’s all heartbreakingly fun¬
ny. Chekhov zeroes in on our
common demons of destruc¬
tion, shows them in full force,
and then reveals the quiet
moments of desperate, brave
loneliness in which we sur¬
vive them. With eloquent and
surprisingly timely pleas, he
sees us being destroyed in the
same callous way as our natu¬
ral resources, and that note of
environmentalism is just one
more previously unheard ma¬
jor element that emerges
afresh from Perloffs dusting
off.
Sexy Farce
Uncle Vanya is a farce as
well as a tragedy; Perloff also
reveals it as a very sexy play.
Perloff’s characters come
upon each other in scan¬
dalous, shocking moments.
Even when drunk and fool¬
ishly celebrating a moment’s
freedom, two men can be
thrown together in breathless
physical intimacy.
Perhaps because of these
impending surprises, Perloff
starts her version slow. Too
slow for me; the first act
seems becalmed. But the ex¬
cellence of the ensemble won
me over, followed soon
enough by growing apprecia¬
tion of Perloff s re-envisioning
of the play.
Maybe the director’s only
providing time for us to di¬
gest Kate Edmunds’ wonder¬
ful set, a colorful sort of
Kandinsky in Wonderland,
where indoors and outdoors
are intermingled, upstairs be¬
comes downstairs without de¬
marcation, and windows and
doors sprout in new and nov¬
el locations and sizes. It’s a
place as expansive as our
hopes, yet as confined as our
experience.
What Perloff has done
with this set, the translation,
and her impeccable direction
is to release the play from the
accretion of realistic trappings
that have weighed it down.
Here, there’s not much more
than a samovar, a settee, and
Beaver Bauer’s handsome cos¬
tumes. When thus allowed
more air, the play burns
brighter than ever before.
Only Perloffs request that
her cast naturalistically act
their way through their
monologues seems out of
step. Wouldn’t it have been
more in line with her concep¬
tion, as startlingly fresh and
Tony Amendola, right and friend, Wendell Pierce, left, admire
a life beyond their reach in Uncle Vanya.
modern as the other elements
of the production, if they ad¬
dressed the audience directly?
Swell Cast
The cast is swell. Sharon
Omi is a wonder as Sonya,
her love and youth at first
bursting out, her subsequent
disappointment held tight and
hurting all the more. Vilma
Silva’s Yelena is a subtle cre¬
ation, keeping us guessing
about her needs until a cru¬
cial moment. Roberta Calla¬
han, with her wounded eyes
and Cheshire cat smile, is a
knowing nurse. Wendell
Pierce as the family doctor
holds the greatest surprises,
whether revealing his sexual
desire to Yelena or drunkenly
dancing with Vanya, throw¬
ing himself on top of the man
in a wild, sexy moment.
Vanya is played by Tony
Amendola, who, as usual,
blazes. What a thrill, earning
a commingled gasp, laugh
and a tear, when he throws
himself in denunciation
against his towering elder,
only to clasp him in impotent
despair. The subsequent
scenes in which he brandishes
a pistol against the man have
never been more riotous.
Amendola’s is a memorable
Vanya in a memorable
Vanya.
This is an Uncle Vanya to
be cherished, lovingly crafted
by wise artists. I wish
Chekhov could see it. ▼
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Books
Bitter Brew
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories,
edited by Margaret Reynolds; Penguin, $27.50
by Deborah Peifer
T he recently released
Penguin Book of Les¬
bian Short Stories
might be more accu¬
rately titled The Penguin
Book of Lost, Lonely, and
Lurid Lesbians. Editor Mar¬
garet Reynolds has gathered
works by 32 women, and in
so doing raises serious ques¬
tions about the whole idea of
identity and identity politics.
In her introduction, Reynolds
defines lesbian writing as
“writingwhich exhibits, with¬
in the confines of the text it¬
self, something which makes
it distinctively about, or for,
or out of lesbian experience...
Many of the writers in this
collection are lesbian; some of
them are heterosexual; some
of them would call them¬
selves bisexual; some would
choose to call themselves by
none of these names. Who
knows? Who cares?”
Well, to start with, I do.
I’m very concerned that, giv¬
en Reynolds’ definition, Nor¬
man Mailer and Phyllis
Schlafly could soon write and
publish lesbian fiction. And if
anyone can write something
called lesbian fiction, does the
term still have meaning? We
name ourselves to claim com¬
monality with others of our
kind. I have to think that, un¬
til being a lesbian has no po¬
litical significance, the use of
the word had better be
charged with more meaning
than Reynolds suggests.
Having said that, I must
confess that this is not a very
good collection of anything.
My first objection is that
some of the stories in the
book are excerpts from
longer works. A chapter from
a novel is not a short story,
but Reynolds includes several
such extracts in this volume,
suggesting that there were
not enough worthy short sto¬
ries to fill a book. And yet I
could name several excellent
collections of short fiction
written by lesbians. Where
was Reynolds looking, I won¬
der?
Many tragic lesbians
My second objection is to
the choices themselves. Thir¬
teen ot the 32 pieces were
written before Stonewall, and
most of these are of the tragic
lesbian, hidden lesbian, or
tragic-hidden lesbian genre.
Typical of this dark and de¬
pressing view of lesbian life is
an excerpt from an Ann Ban-
non pulp novel from the ’50s
in which Laura tries “to make
herself sound normal and or¬
dinary when her whole body
was begging for strange pas¬
sion, for forbidden release.”
Several of the later pieces are
set in pre-Stonewall times, so
there are even more hidden
and tragic lesbians.
Of course, there is also a
story set in 19th-century Eng¬
land (I’m guessing, based on a
few obscure clues in the text)
in which there are lesbians
everywhere who have “com¬
ing out balls” and who are
just happy as clams and have
attitudes toward sexuality
that seem remarkably similar
to those of late 20th-century
America.
There are some worthy
selections — by Anna Livia
and Jewelle Gomez, among a
very few — but for $27.50, you
could buy the editions in
which these stories originally
appeared and end up with a
whole lot more bang for the
buck.
I suspect that, had this col¬
lection come out 25 years ago,
it might have had some value.
In 1994, however, it looks like
little more than a mainstream
publisher’s attempt to cash in
on lesbian chic. Don’t let Pen¬
guin get away with this. T
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Tea and Crumpets
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories,
edited by David Leavitt & Mark Mitchell; Viking, $27.50
by Roberto Friedman
I n his introduction to
The Penguin Book of
Gay Short Stories, the
new anthology he edit¬
ed with Mark Mitchell, David
Leavitt congratulates himself
for not excluding women or
heterosexual male writers
from his collection. The col¬
lection of 39 stories does in¬
clude choices which expand
the parameters of gay men’s
literature. Good work is good
work, regardless of the sexu¬
ality of the author. More’s the
pity the overall range seems
so narrow.
Partner Mitchell is strange¬
ly missing from the introduc¬
tion, traditionally the place
for an editor to stake out his
identity and explain his choic¬
es. But the intro to this sup¬
posedly collaborative affair is
unmistakably an excursion in
the first person, singular.
Leavitt begins by lamenting
his choices of gay fiction
while casting around as a
teenager in the ’70s. He con¬
veys his disdain for the popu¬
lar gay novels then available,
specifically Andrew Holler-
an’s Dancer From The Dance
and the Gordon Merrick ro¬
mances ( The Lord Won’t
Mind, etc.) He is appropriate¬
ly leery of both hack
Harlequin-style novels and
beauty-worshipping gay ghet¬
to fiction as the only models
apparently available to him
then; but I wonder that in his
formative years he never
found Genet’s Our Lady of
the Flowers, or Burroughs’s
Naked Lunch or The Wild
Boys. Either would have of¬
fered a definite alternative to
the Fire Island set.
But one gets the impres¬
sion that Leavitt would prefer
all gay fiction to be as liter¬
ary, as polite as the work of
E.M. Forster, his favorite
writer. Certainly the British,
the well-bred and the sexually
understated predominate in
his anthology. The first 200
pages alone are almost entire¬
ly given over to stuffy British
writers, starting with D.H.
Lawrence and proceeding to
Graham Greene.
The inclusion of stories
about gay men by straight
writers is a good, even a
courageous idea in the ab¬
stract, but what on earth is
Greene’s fag-hating “May We
Borrow Your Husband?” do¬
ing in this book, while so
much good work by genuine¬
ly gay writers goes unno¬
ticed? Do we really need to
make room for stories that
perpetuate all those old
swishing, predator stereo¬
types?
As you would expect from
a 655-page collection, there is
much good stuff in the Pen¬
guin: old favorites like
Forster’s “Arthur Snatchfold,”
and contemporary classics
like Allen Gurganus’s “Adult
Art.” But the overall editorial
vision rankles me, especially
given that the anthology
promises to become a stan¬
dard, paperbacked and kept
in print. For one thing, a
number of the pieces are not
short stories at all, but ex¬
cerpts from novels or mem¬
oirs. That’s fine in an om¬
nibus of gay fiction, but why
are they in a book dedicated
in its very title to gay short
stories?
Been there, done that
Also, many of the book’s
showcase selections —
Forster’s “Snatchfold,” Isher-
wood’s Berlin story, James
Purdy’s excellent “Some of
These Days,” Gurganus’s
“Adult Art,” Richard Mc¬
Cann’s “My Mother’s Clothes:
The School of Beauty and
Shame” — have already
graced several earlier, perfect¬
ly good gay anthologies. If
you are familiar with the pio¬
neering The Other Persua¬
sion, or the Men On Men se¬
ries, or the Calamus collec¬
tion, or Edmund White’s re¬
cent Faber Book of Gay
Short Fiction, this latest en-
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Books
Truth by the Ton
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Soci¬
ety, by Peter McWilliams; 817
by Jim Coughenour
P eter McWilliams’ fat
book on personal
freedom, Ain’t No¬
body’s Business If
You Do, gives every indica¬
tion of being the right book
written by the wrong person
in the wrong way. It’s got a
silly cover; it’s about five
times too long; and its prose
is an uneven mixture of pam¬
phleteer rhetoric and indul¬
gent talk-show host humor.
McWilliams, better known for
his books on computers and
“personal growth,” admits as
much: “I’ve been waiting for
years for someone to write
this book/ he writes, ‘If
someone had, I wouldn’t have
had to; Since no one has, I
did.”
He could have done much
worse. Ain’t Nobody’s Busi¬
ness If You Do deserves
more respect than it invites.
It’s a genuinely interesting
(and often genuinely enter¬
taining) book that makes a
persuasive case for
McWilliams’ main argument,
which is, to paraphrase: You
pages, $27.00.
should be allowed to do what¬
ever you want with your own
person and property, as long
as you don’t physically harm
the person or property of an¬
other.
McWilliams doesn’t shy
away from the implications of
his position, which embraces
the untrammeled right of any
consenting adult to partici¬
pate in prostitution, sodomy,
the recreational, religious or
regenerative use of drugs, to
collect pornography or join a
cult, to cross-dress or go
naked or to commit suicide. If
the parties involved consent
to such activities, McWilliams
argues with surprising sanity,
it ain’t nobody’s business but
their own.
Appeal to common sense
This is not a new position,
as McWilliams knows. It’s im¬
plicit in the Enlightenment
belief in “natural rights” (en¬
shrined in the U.S. Constitu¬
tion and its Bill of Rights); it’s
explicit in the work of
philosophers like John Stuart
Mill, who wrote in his famous
essay On Liberty that “the
only purpose for which power
can be rightfully exercised
over any member of a civi¬
lized community against his
will is to prevent harm to oth¬
ers. His own good, either
physical or moral, is not a suf¬
ficient warrant.”
McWilliams builds upon
Mill’s argument in two ways.
First, he appeals to his read¬
ers’ common sense, pointing
out the manifest absurdity of
punishing consensual acts: the
gross expense ($50 billion per
year) and injustice of enforc¬
ing these laws; the ways they
actually promote real crime;
and the hypocrisy of punish¬
ing consensual acts when
“cigarettes do more damage
and cause more deaths than
all of the consensual crimes
combined.” Such laws also
distract the public from more
pressing issues and “create a
society of fear, hatred, big¬
otry, oppression, and confor¬
mity.” McWilliams’ bulleted
lists of statistics are as con¬
vincing as they are depress¬
ing.
But the author knows bet¬
ter than to try to make his
case with statistics alone. As
he turns to the case against
each consensual crime, he bol¬
sters his position with a mass
of historical detail, demon-
(Continued on page 51)
Tea
(Continued from previous page)
try in the anthology market
may leave you with a feeling
of deja vu.
A press release informs me
that nearly one third of the
contributions were written
expressly for this publication,
but which ones? The stories’
dates of publication and com¬
position are not cited, a real
problem when trying to place
them historically or in the
context of their authors’
work.
Can you tell I was a bit ex¬
asperated by this book? No
denying the real delights in
its pages — Desmond Hogan’s
lyrical “Jimmy,” Edmund
White’s memoir-like
“Reprise,” David Plante’s ex¬
otic “The Princess from
Africa.” There are duds, as
well, such as a hopelessly
melodramatic story by Noel
Coward that might be of
some interest as a curio but
only proves the playwright of
sparkling repartee had no
idea how to pace a short sto¬
ry. Perhaps the biggest sur¬
prise is Larry Kramer’s “Mrs.
Teffilin,” an empathetic por¬
trait of elderly Jewish culture
convincingly rendered, but
homosexuality figures into
the story only as a plot de¬
vice, and a far-fetched one at
that. I assume the piece dates
from the days before Kramer
became reigning diva of rage
queens, but then again,
there’s no year cited, so I
can’t know for sure.
There are no West Coast
writers deemed worthy of in¬
clusion, unless you count
Leavitt himself, who was
raised in Palo Alto, and I
don’t. Why choose Peter
Wells (from New Zealand)
and not Peter Weltner? Why
Bernard Cooper and not Den¬
nis Cooper? The answer
seems to lie in Leavitt’s (and
Mitchell’s?) essentially conser¬
vative taste, whereby tea and
crumpets with Barbara Pym
appeals more to some nostal¬
gic literary craving than any
venture into New Narrative
work. Does the road out of
Fire Island necessarily run
straight to the Continent? A
list of obvious omissions
among gay writers living and
working in America would
fill the column.
Odd inclusion
Some choices are down¬
right puzzling. The only con¬
tributor granted two stories,
A.M. Homes, is the author of
a terrific short novel, Jack,
written from the point of
view of a teenage boy who
finds out his dad is gay.
Homes mimics the language,
the thought process, the very
inner life of male adolescence
remarkably well, considering
she’s never been one. But
Jack is not represented here,
and her story “A Real Doll,”
while a comic treat, has little
to do with gay themes, and
everything to do with the fan¬
tasy sex life a boy enacts with
his sister’s Barbie Doll. What
makes the editors’ decision
that they must include it in a
volume underrepresentative
of alternative gay fiction even
more puzzling is their inclu¬
sion, as well, of Ms. Homes’s
“The Whiz Kids,” which does
concern sexual exploration
between boys. It also ends the
book on a jarring note, the
boys’ sexual degradation of a
female friend. Now that’s not
a scene in which most queer
men care to indulge.
Allen Barnett’s “The
Times as It Knows Us,” an
affecting story of the continu¬
ing onslaught, is one of the
most relevant and finely
tuned pieces here. Ironically,
its cast of Manhattanite gays
sharing a house on Fire Is¬
land exactly replicates the
scenario of the ’70s novel
Leavitt so disdains. In Bar¬
nett’s story, tea dance is inci¬
dental to the real subject,
which is how we care for
each other in the midst of
devastating crisis — or don’t.
Mr. Leavitt should note that
the strengths of Barnett’s sto¬
ry are very similar to that ear¬
lier Island chronicle, the sem¬
inal if slick Dancer. Both
works faithfully capture, in
prose, the type of dish queer
men do pass around about
each other — in Holleran’s
case, while in the throes of
hedonist excess; in Barnett’s,
as we all try to cope with the
impossible hand AIDS has
dealt.
I was certainly glad, as I
too was a gay teen in the’70s,
that Dancer From The Dance
was around for me to read,
even given Leavitt’s valid
reservations about its subtext,
and even if I was as far from
a timeshare in the Pines then
as I am now. On the other
hand, Leavitt has succeeded
in achieving a life worthy of
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the middle class’s loftiest aspi¬
rations. Is it that the shallow¬
ness he now so despises in
the Merrick books, in Dancer,
is somehow threatening in its
familiarity? Or are trips down
Anglophile memory lane ad¬
venturous enough? ▼
FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 39
Community
Body
(Continued from page 33)
elists include Brenda Wong
Aoki, Christine Tamblyn,
Saidiya Hartman, Catherine
Lord and Katia Noyes.
In a talk entitled, “Diagnos¬
ing the Female Body: Activist
Art, Biopolitics and Networks
of Resistance,” presenters
Kathy High, Marian Winsryg,
Crystal Mason, Maria St. John
and Carla Kirkwood will look
at the ways in which the fe¬
male body has been con¬
trolled through definition by
the medical profession and
public health policies. In addi¬
tion, they will examine the
ideologies and strategies used
to challenge biomedical poli¬
tics.
Zoey Kroll of The LAB,
one of the curators of Ad¬
dressing Herself, which runs
through March 5 at the LAB
Gallery, recently spoke with
the Bay Area Reporter about
the exhibition and its exami¬
nation of themes of gender
commodification, representa¬
tion and transformation. She
remarks that “the show is
about the female body on dis¬
play, the refashioning and re¬
vising of the body.” It’s a
show of working artists and
activists that complements
the discussion and theory gen¬
erated by “The Illustrated
Woman” conference.
Walking museum
One of the more unusual
contributions to this year’s
conference will be Orlan’s
performance/lecture Opera-
tion-Reussie, which Kroll
says demonstrates “how histo¬
ry impacts the body.” This
self-as-artistic-process reveals
Orlan’s ongoing project of
“self-transformation” in which
the artist, through a series of
plastic surgery operations, re¬
models herself to resemble
well-known images of women
in Western art history: she
has Venus’ chin, Europa’s
lips, Diana’s eyes, Psyche’s
nose, Mona Lisa’s forehead.
Works by Stephanie Cress,
Deborah Edwards, Marisa
Hernandez, H. Len Keller,
Oona Nelson, Jann Nunn,
Melissa Pokorny and Millie
Wilson will also be featured
in the exhibition.
In discussing the impor¬
tance of the conference, Kroll
emphasizes how important it
is that women “subvert cul¬
tural codes that are read as
‘feminine’ and recreate im¬
ages of ourselves, while ac¬
knowledging the history of
our representation — even
though it’s a limited depiction
- and play with it.”
Both the conference and
exhibition will allow partici¬
pants to explore the manifold
contradictions that surround
images of women in society
today: why we continue to
strive for beauty and indepen¬
dence in cultures whose
taboos condemn us for doing
so; the persistence of myths
about female “uncleanliness”;
and the cultural conditioning
we succumb to in order to be
desirable, all the while su-
pressing desire. This meeting
of artists and artwork is an
opportunity to reclaim both
images of ourselves and our
desires. ▼
Editor’s note: For informa¬
tion about “The Illustrated
Woman” and the exhibition,
Addressing Herself, call The
LAB at (415) 346-4063. Con¬
ference tickets may be pur¬
chased through the Center
for the Arts at (415) 978-
ARTS/978-2787.
Women's Critical Condition
Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence,
edited by Amy Scholder; City Lights Books; $10.95
by Noreen C. Barnes
T
helma and Louise
had to die. Of course.
Or, at least that’s
what appears to have
happened. The images of Su¬
san Sarandon and Geena
Davis, pawned off as bud¬
ding feminists who fight back
(with guns, not words), pene¬
trated our culture — and me¬
dia commentators’ minds —
like few other movie charac¬
ters from recent history. For
a time, all the chatter con¬
vinced women that a positive,
pro-feminist film had finally
been produced by main¬
stream Hollywood. Oddly, the
contrast between the romanti¬
cized view offered by that
film and the reality of women
today is startling. But, as Amy
Scholder, editor of Critical
Condition: Women on the
Edge of Violence, points out,
Thelma and Louise became
powerful icons because
“women are looking for im¬
ages of power and self-deter¬
mination.”
Scholder’s book is a collec¬
tion of excerpts from panel
discussions, performances and
presentations given at last
year’s first Feminist Activism
and Art conference, co-spon¬
sored by The LAB and SF
Camerawork. Last year’s con¬
ferees considered, among oth¬
er things, how violence inter¬
sects with race, class, gender
and sexuality and examined
such topics as women and
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women as victims of domestic
violence.
In a recent interview with
B.A.R., Scholder spoke about
how she compiled the materi¬
al from the forums, lectures
and performances and shaped
it to reflect the two central,
interconnected themes of the
conference: domestic vio¬
lence/sexual abuse and wom¬
en who kill: “What to me was
so moving, shocking and dis¬
turbing about putting the
book together was that I
couldn’t edit a work about
women who kill without also
considering domestic violence
and sexual abuse.” The inex¬
orable link of the two “is a
fact that is hard for people to
accept.” The Wuornos case
exemplifies that perfectly.
The average person can’t em¬
pathize with a prostitute be¬
ing raped — there is a huge
gulf in this culture, which is
one reason why justice is pre¬
vented.”
Critical Condition (the ti¬
tle aptly describes, in medical
metaphor, the political and so¬
cial position of women), is
prefaced by a list of chilling
statistics: a woman is assault¬
ed and beaten every 15 sec¬
onds; raped every 1.3 min¬
utes; nearly 40 percent of
women are sexually abused
by their 18th birthday; most
women in prison are poor
and have children; women
serve twice as long in prison
than men for murdering their
spouses. Scholder’s purpose
in starting the book this way
was to avoid making vague
philosophical statements
about violence against women
and to instead bluntly illus¬
trate how pervasive violence
is in women’s lives.
At last year’s Feminist Ac¬
tivism and Art conference,
two events from recent histo¬
ry were frequently referred to
in the works of the presen¬
ters: the conviction of “serial
killer” Wuornos, and the un¬
solved murders of 45 women
in San Diego, the famous
“NHI” case, the title being a
police code lor “No Humans
Involved, a reierence to the
seeming marginality of the
victims.
The response of artists to
“NHI” was to make women
visible: Carla Kirkwood per¬
formed an autobiographical
monologue, “Many Women
Involved,” while the “No Hu¬
mans Involved” public art
project, a collaboration of five
artists, meditated on the vic¬
tims in a series of presenta¬
tions consisting of billboards,
performances, books, discus¬
sions and photographs of vic¬
tims and women representing
those for whom there were
no photographs. By using
stand-ins for the murdered
women, the “NHI” project’s
Elizabeth Sisco explains that
the project, “provided a mes¬
sage of solidarity with the
murdered women and with
all women in the community.
It was a public acknowledge¬
ment that violence against
one woman is a threat to all
women, and that to brand vic¬
tims of violent sexual assault
as prostitutes, drug addicts
and transients stifles genuine
public concern and gives a
false sense of assurance to
other women.”
Included in the visual art
of Critical Condition are pho¬
tographs of Liz Claiborne
Inc.’s Domestic Violence
Awareness Campaign, Janet
Dodson’s Prison Project, and
Christine Cobaugh’s stark, un¬
settling “Disembodied Beach
Series.” The book also pro¬
vides excerpts from the con¬
ference’s other provocative
panel discussions, which cov¬
ered a variety of topics in¬
cluding media and racism and
sexual abuse and creativity.
Also included is the moving
poetry of Wanda Coleman
and Sapphire and a perfor¬
mance piece by Dee Russell,
all of it articulating the expe¬
rience of violence, misogyny
and racism.
Scholder has done an ex¬
cellent job in Critical Condi
tion illuminating the con
cerns of women today as stat
ed by women. It is an honest,
therefore indispensable, look
at subjects most people prefer
to look at through rose-col¬
ored glasses. ▼
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Profiles
(Continued from page 33)
teering for plastic surgery.
Working on her image, she
has seized control of the
means of its production. Re¬
jecting mass-market facial
norms, she’s designed her
own radical make-over, in¬
cluding cheek implants insert¬
ed under her eyebrows, re¬
sulting in a look she describes
as part Star Trek and part
Mona Lisa. Transforming the
operating room into a perfor¬
mance space, Orlan has
dressed her doctors in design¬
er costumes and brought in a
rapper, a dancer and a signer
to perform along with her.
She’s even read bits of
French philosophy mid-oper¬
ation in order to throw an in¬
tellectual light on the flesh-
and-blood proceedings.
Ask Michael Jackson
One of the theories behind
her practice, to paraphrase
the text by Eugnie Lemoine
Leuccioni that inspired her
work, goes something like
this: “The skin is deceptive
and disappointing because
one never is what one has.“
In other words, although you
may be what you eat, you
never look like how you feel.
Just ask Michael Jackson.
“I said to myself,” Orlan
said to me in French over the
phone from New York, “in
our day and age it was possi¬
ble to narrow that gap. It’s a
question of communication, of
bringing the internal image
closer to the external image.”
Using an example near and
dear to habitues of the Mother
lode, she explained: “If a
man feels like a woman, he
wants other people to see him
as a woman. And there’s a
way to do that. I very often
say that I’m a female-to-fe-
male transsexual.”
Four years ago, Orlan de¬
cided that what she felt she
ought to look like was a com¬
puter-generated composite of
a handful of female icons
from French and Italian
paintings, including Botticel¬
li’s Venus and the Mona Lisa.
“What I’m doing is a self-por¬
trait, a psychological self-por¬
trait,” she said “which is at
once traditional and non-tradi-
tional because it’s so radical,
being inscribed directly into
my flesh using cutting-edge
technology. That’s why it’s
problematic, why it raises
questions. If I did it the usual
way we wouldn’t be here.”
If she did it the usual way,
we wouldn’t have to watch.
She’d go away, like any self-
respecting movie star or
politician, and not come back
until she was a finished prod¬
uct. But this living objet —or
do I mean, sujet d’art — is
nothing if not process-oriented.
A recent appearance under the
surgeon’s knife, last Novem¬
ber in New York, was broad¬
cast by satellite to interactive
hook-ups in such far-flung
places as Paris, Riga and
Tokyo. Her subsequent show
at the Sandra Gering Gallery
in Manhattan featured daily
state-of-the-artist photos of her
convalescing, self-portrait self.
“The concept was,” ex¬
plains Orlan, “I got up. I
didn’t brush my hair. I didn’t
put on make-up. I didn’t do
anything. And I got in front
of the lense. At first, all ban¬
daged up, then later, bruised
and swollen. You can imag¬
ine. Like a battered woman,
you might say.” Plus she dyed
her hair black, leaving half
her bangs bleached yellow
and the other half dark blue.
Uncomfortable
If Orlan had a last name,
her middle name would be
Radical. She has not lost
touch with her artistic begin¬
nings in the 70s, the good old
days of Fluxus and happen¬
ings, when life was art and
art was life and nobody could
tell the difference. “I’m trying
to take those ingredients —
without being a has-been -
and make a 21st-century per¬
formance using modern
means that reconnects with
that weight, that strength,
that discomfort.”
Refusing the role of the
suffering artist, she swears
she designs her operations to
be as unmasochistic as possi¬
ble. Nevertheless, she’s no
softie. “I hate comfortable
art,” she says. “I hate art that’s
meant as a decoration, that’s
like house plants. We already
have that at home. We have
aquariums and I think that’s
great, but enough is enough.
The art that interests me is
art that upsets how we think
about things, that opens our
eyes. So my work is very un¬
comfortable for me and very
uncomfortable for the public
as well.” ▼
Editor’s note: Orlan will give
a non-operative performance
and lecture as part of “The
Illustrated Woman: The Sec¬
ond Annual Conference on
Feminist Activism and Art,”
Saturday, February 5 at 8pm
at Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission Street. Tickets
are $15 general and $12 stu¬
dents. For information, call
The LAB, 346-4063.
Naiad Shorts
The Romantic Naiad;
Edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier; Naiad, $14.95
The Romantic Naiad is the latest anthology in what I hope
will be a continuing series of short pieces by Naiad writers. It
is an impressive collection indeed. Consider the opening of “Sign
Language,” by Penny Sumner: “Roses are red, apples too. This
being about True Love there will, of course, be roses. But the ap¬
ples come first: they were my idea” — a lovely introduction to a
sweet little story. Jennifer Fulton writes a bizarre, and ultimate¬
ly, hilarious tale of a lesbian who kidnaps a woman in order to
save her from becoming “The Bride.” Ranging in tone from
sweet to steamy, the stories in this anthology will provide
unmixed delight. T
—Deborah Peifer
Me'Shell
(Continued from page 33)
teners if they come out. The
music press would seem to in¬
dicate that hip-hop, in partic¬
ular, has a problem with gay
musicians. Likewise, homo¬
phobia in black musical cir¬
cles has become a front-page
issue. But while Me’Shell ac¬
knowledges that a problem
exists, she doesn’t think it’s
insurmountable.
“I kind of grew up in an
urban situation,” said
Me’Shell. “I know where the
rappers are coming from. Be¬
ing a man is a precious thing,
but they really don’t know
what it means to be a man.
There’s a problem, but some¬
one just needs to take the
time to say ‘What’s up with
that? What makes you feel
that way?”’
Lesbian chic
Me’Shell has mixed feel¬
ings about another media
phenomenon that hits close to
home: Lesbian chic.
“It has pros and cons, just
like anything else. It’s sort of
great that you get to see ‘out’
lesbians who are intelligent,
speak well, and doing things.
I mean, I think America was
bombarded with negative im¬
ages of lesbians. Like, they’d
go to parades and take pic¬
tures of the most obscure
things. And that’s all people
would see, flamboyant bare¬
breasted women, which isn’t
a representation of lesbianism
as a whole. I think it’s great
to see another side.
Me'Shell: "It's no big deal.''
“But otherwise, I think it’s
a game, like propaganda. All
of a sudden it’s cool to have
lesbian friends, or have a les¬
bian look. And that’s utter
bullshit.”
In terms of being gay,
Me’Shell said “she’s not inter¬
ested in being a lesbian
poster child,” only that she
“has nothing to hide.”
“It’s very much a part of
me, and it doesn’t affect my
personality. I mean it just is
me,” she said. “I am Me’Shell
NdegeOcello. I play bass,
write music and sing. Oh, and
I happen to be a lesbian.
Maybe I can help people see
it in a different light. It’s real¬
ly no big thing.”
Plantation Lullabies has
been out since November and
has earned unusual critical ac¬
claim. Me’Shell’s music
blends free-form jazz struc¬
tures with steamy funk atti¬
tude and growling husky vo¬
cals. Her music is an uncom¬
fortable blend of rage and
peace, an apparent contradic¬
tion that Me’Shell thrives on.
“I don’t think I’m political.
I try not to deal with anything
in the political system, be¬
cause it doesn’t work for me
as a black person,” she said.
“Black love in the midst of
revolution — to love myself
and to love other people —
that’s what I think the album
is about.” ▼
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SPORTS
AND FITNESS
National Tennis Circuit '94
by Gary Sutton
N ot to be outdone by
the pros, the gay
and lesbian tennis
community has its
own national tennis circuit.
Indeed, if the pros were to
see what we have they would
be impressed not only with
the caliber of play, but with
the camaraderie and spirit of
good will shared by partici¬
pants.
The list of cities across
America which host annual
national tournaments is grow¬
ing every year. It all began 14
years ago when Dallas’ Oak
Lawn Tennis Association in¬
vited players from other clubs
to join them in a tournament.
Each year the competition at
the national level has become
better and better as new peo¬
ple have learned the circuit
and begun to test their skills.
Among the many positive
aspects of the tournaments is
that they offer divisions for
players of all levels of ability
— from teaching pros to those
just beginning to appreciate
the sport’s appeal. This allows
even beginner or intermedi¬
ate players to experience the
fun and excitement of nation¬
al tournaments. There are,
typically, divisions for women
and men, as well as mixed
doubles events at many of the
tournaments.
This year features a record
14 events, highlighted by the
Gay Games in June. The year
gets underway in February
with the only clay court tour¬
nament on the circuit, spon¬
sored by the South Florida
Tennis Club in Ft. Laud¬
erdale. This popular tourna¬
ment attracts a large crowd
because its host town is in a
part of the country that pro¬
vides for many an ideal win¬
ter get-away. Plus, its a fun
and well organized tourna¬
ment.
A new club formed in LA
is next on the schedule with a
tournament scheduled for the
first weekend in April. Fol¬
lowing that, Minneapolis will
host its first tournament May
14-16th.
Memorial Day weekend,
May 28-30th, will feature two
events. The largest is the San
Francisco club’s event, called
the U.S. Gay Open. It will be
the 14th such annual event,
and with the large number of
women players in the Bay
Area, it should be a real draw
for women tournament play¬
ers.
Louisville, Kentucky is
scheduled to host its inaugu¬
ral tournament over the
Memorial Day weekend as
well. These tournaments are
expected to draw unusually
large crowds this year be¬
cause they will serve as a
“warm up’’ for the Gay
Games unfolding three weeks
later.
The tennis highlight of
1994, of course, will be the
Gay Games in New York,
June 18-25th. This event will
host divisions for tennis play¬
ers according to age and level
of ability.
Those who don’t leave
New York with a medal
around their neck may want
to try the San Diego tourna¬
ment over the 4th of July
weekend for another chance
at winning a medal. Tradi¬
tionally, the San Diego event
is one of the best run on the
circuit. It attracts a strong
field of players, particularly
from California.
It’s not snowing in Chicago
in August, but players get to
experience the only indoor
tournament on the circuit,
hosted by their club August 5-
7th.
Players have their choice
of three tournaments over the
September Labor Day week¬
end: the Los Angeles Tennis
Association’s National Cham¬
pionship; Atlanta’s Peach
Tournament; and Portland’s
Sports Festival.
September 16-18th is the
date the Washington D.C.
group will host its Capital
Classic Tournament.
The year’s tennis events
wrap up with Dallas’ tourna¬
ment October 8-10th and
Houston’s event November
ll-13th.
All clubs hosting national
tournaments also have a vari¬
ety of local tennis activities.
Those interested in more in¬
formation about the gay and
lesbian tennis circuit or any
of the above clubs should con¬
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Randle Grabs Those Balls
by Joe Nelson
I n the opening game of
the 1994 basketball sea¬
son, held last Thursday
(January 27), Corey Ran¬
dle, of the Gay Men’s basket¬
ball team, played an outstand¬
ing game as he grabbed 10 re¬
bounds, scored seven points
and blocked three shots.
Despite his efforts, the re¬
christened Hotshots lost to
the Brewmasters 60 to 52.
This year’s team is really
using the Eureka Valley
Adult Men’s Basketball
league as a training ground
for New York’s Gay Games 4
in June. It appears that at
least two teams will represent
San Francisco in two differ¬
ent age brackets. However,
the league team is suffering
from a few problems, though
the experience will be impor¬
tant for winning those medals
in June.
For one, the team lost last
year’s sponsor, Castro Village
Pharmacy, due to a buyout of
the pharmacy by a larger cor¬
poration. So, the name used
in the ‘80s, the Hotshots was
adopted again. Also, the
coach from last season is un¬
available and the players have
been coaching themselves.
But, in a reasonable reaction
to the first game’s results,
Eliot Kahn was unanimously
elected to be coach (and re¬
mains eligible for court time).
Finally, half of the team is
new, including two-fifths of
the starting line-up.
All of these problems were
evident in the tough loss last
Thursday. Besides Corey, the
best efforts were contributed
by Jerome “Louie” Lewis at
eight points, three rebounds;
Alex Herrera at eight points,
three rebounds and two
blocked shots; and veteran
Mark Johnson with six points,
eight rebounds and two
blocked shots. Newcomer Joe
Jupin also got six boards.
The halftime score was 26
to 25, but the team missed its
first 10 three-point-shots in
the second half after only hit¬
ting one of six three pointers
in the first half. The Brew-
masters scored from all over
the floor and took advantage
of the Hotshots’ misses, yet
the Brewmasters only led by
five points with four minutes
left to play.
This year’s team captain,
Louie Lewis, expressed his
frustration over the outcome,
but he recognized that there
was no preparation for this
season. Due to the holidays
and changes in leadership, the
players know it will take time
for this new unit to become a
true team.
Thursday, February 3, the
Hotshots will challenge the
Run & Gun team at 6:30 p.m.
at the 100 Collingwood gym.
Their opponent is much
taller, and the Hotshots will
require an outstanding effort
to compete against these
guys. The gym is open, free
of charge, and fans are en¬
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BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3. 1994 PAGE 42
Sports
Sports
Guide
Basketball
San Francisco Slammers
women’s basketball team.
Call Susan at 648-4931.
Men’s Basketball — call
Tony at 621-2710.
Bicycling
Different Spokes Bicycle
Club promotes noncompeti¬
tive cycling for men and
women on both road and
mountain bikes. Rides each
weekend, plus regular “De¬
cide and Ride” each Sunday
at 10 a.m., McLaren Lodge,
Golden Gate Park. For sched¬
ule or newsletter, please call
(415) 282-1647 or write PO
Box 14711, San Francisco, CA
94114.
Boating
Barbary Coast Boating
Club — gay boat owners and
enthusiasts meet the 3rd
Wednesday of every month, 7
p.m., Berkeley Yacht Club,
Berkeley Marina. West to the
end of University Ave., #1
Seawall Drive, (415) 905-6267.
Bodybuilding
Arcadia Bodybuilding So¬
ciety — call 978-9495 or write
ABS, 1230 Market Street, SF,
CA 94114.
Bowling
Women’s Business Bowl¬
ing League. Call Ann at 641-
5795.
Tavern Guild Bowling
League. Call Mai Garcia at
752-2366.
Boxing
Bay Area Boxing Club, a
fully sanctioned USABF
(United States Amateur Box¬
ing Federation) meets Thurs¬
days at 8 p.m. Open to all in¬
terested gay men and les¬
bians; all skill levels are wel¬
come. Call Greg at 585-2365.
Football
Women’s Flag Football: In¬
terested women call Maureen
(415) 479-1131.
San Francisco Trojans
Football. Two games every
Saturday, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.,
at Silver Terrace near Silver
and Bayshore, SF. All skill
levels welcome. Call Gary at
344-8873.
Hiking
San Francisco Hiking Club
- Call Clyde at 285-1260.
Gay and Lesbian Sierrans,
official activity section of the
Sierra Club. Call the hotline:
281-5666.
South Bay GLS — call the
Loma Prieta GLS hotline at
408-236-2170.
Racquet and Paddle
Sports
Gay & Lesbian Tennis
Federation — John McEnhill,
864-0187, extension 4. Infor¬
mal social doubles every Sat¬
urday and Sunday morning at
the Flint and 16th Street ten¬
nis courts, weather permit¬
ting.
Table Tennis Anyone?
Practice Tuesdays, 7:00-9:30
p.m., at Milberry Union,
UCSF, 500 Parnassus, SF.
Call Allen Balderson, 626-
1787, or Lucie, 387-4476.
Running
San Francisco FrontRun-
ners. Fun runs at Stow Lake
Boat House in Golden Gate
Park, every Saturday, 9 a.m.
No-host brunch follows. Call
John at 863-0954.
San Francisco Track &
Field, practice every Tues.
and Thurs., 6 p.m., and Sun.,
10:00 a.m., at Kezar Stadium
on Waller & Stanyan streets,
SF. Call Rick 550-7966.
Bay Area Distance Run¬
ners. Call Dave Studach at
626-1380 or Lois Allen at 586-
6013.
Scuba Diving
. Northern California Rain¬
bow Divers: Lesbian and Gay
Scuba Club for the active div¬
er in Northern California.
Meets second Tuesday of ev¬
ery month, 7:30 p.m. at the
Sierra Club, 730 Polk Street,
San Francisco. Call Greg
Abrams for more info, (415)
821-2877.
Skiing
Saga North, lesbian and
gay ski club. Call for more in¬
formation (415) 995-2772.
Soccer
San Francisco Spikes
Men’s Soccer. Practice Tues¬
days, 5:30-8 p.m., at Beach
Chalet in Golden Gate Park.
Call Carlo Togni at 821-4248.
Women’s Soccer. Call
Golden Gate Women’s Soccer
League Chair Jan Mullen at
753-0946.
Softball
S.F. Gay Softball League —
Conducts a regular season of
14 games for men and women
in three divisions from March
through June. Winter pick-up
ball on Sundays: Two games
are played, one at 10:30 a.m.
and another at noon, at
Christopher Field — located
behind the west end of the
Safeway parking lot off Dia¬
mond Heights Blvd. Players
of all skill levels are welcome.
Please call Fred at (415) 381-
0187 or Wendy at (510)436-
7959 for information.
Swimming
Tsunami Masters Swim
Club — call Suzanne at 431-
1933.
Team San Francisco
Gay Games-bound Team
San Francisco hopes to take
at least 1,000 athletes from
the Bay Area to Gay Games
IV in New York, June 18-25,
1994. TSF supplies members
with the latest information
coming out of New York,
travel & housing, registration
packets for all sports, and a
uniform for Opening and
Closing Ceremonies, and
funds to help you get there.
Members recieve a quarterly
newsletter and monthly calen¬
dars. To join TSF, call (415)
824-8118.
Volleyball
Volleyball practice every
Sunday, 8 p.m., at Eureka
Valley, 100 Collingwood. Call
Tony Travers at 255-1332.
Club Volleyball practice
for “B” league players and up
every Saturday except first
Saturday of each month, 9:30-
11:30 a.m., at Eureka Valley,
100 Collingwood. Team and
individual advanced players
practice Mondays, 7:05 p.m.,
at Glen Park Gymnasium.
Call Mike Bulawit at 731-2056.
Gay Volleyball. Every
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
at 18th St. & DeHaro. Every¬
one welcome. Jay: 864-0257.
Wrestling
San Francisco Wrestling
Club practices Sundays, 3-5
p.m. Call Jim Frazier (510)
538-8490.
Golden Gate Wrestling
Club. Practice Tuesdays
evenings 7-9, Friday evenings
7-9, and Sundays 12:30-3 p.m.
at Eureka Valley Rec Center,
100 Collingwood. All skill lev¬
els, men and women wel¬
come. Call Gene at 821-2991,
or Dave Wagner at 558-8412.
Bay Area Wrestling Newsline
at 227-5802.
Note: Your sports group
can be listed here: Send
Sports Guide the name of
your group, a brief descrip¬
tion, the date, times, and loca¬
tions of your practices, and a
contact person for the group.
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Oakland Ballet
Mixed repertory program of
classics, including Leonide
Massine's Gaite Parisienne, Lou
Christensen's Nothin' Doin' Bar,
and Eugene Loring's The Tender
Land, with music by Aaron
Copeland. $8-39. Thru 2/5.
8pm. Paramount Theatre, 2025
Broadway, Oakland. (510) 762-
BASS.
Salon DadA/ a contraDICTION
Multimedia audience partici¬
pation version of Artaud's Jet
of Blood and Tzara's The Gas
Heart. $10-12. Thru 2/20.
Open Egg Theatre, 450 Geary.
673-1172.
Street: Signs you may
remember the four 10X10' paintings of the LA
cops who beat up Rodney King. Those were on
Van Ness. Perhaps you recall the huge portrait of
Keith Meinhold and the bold pro-gay political
statement that accompanied it. That was shown
on Market through Gay Pride. The creator of these
paintings has finally been corraled into showing his
work in an indoor space. See new portraits and
paintings by Aaron Wade,whose squirmy warm
strokes seem to keep moving even after they're
finished. Opening reception Feb. 4, 6-8pm. The
show continues through Feb. 26 at the new
Bucheon Gallery (355 Hayes St., 2nd. Floor. 863-
2891), which, by the way, is run by two faboo
lesbians. There goes the neighborhood.
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 46
jealousy and revenge. $10-15.
8pm. Thru 3/6. Phoenix
Theatre, 301 8th St. 621-4423.
BlackMale
Poet/performers Jamez Smith,
Kain Olaniyan Adams, REginald
Cox interrogate 90s notions of
Blackness,
maleness,
homosex "Negro
faggotry" & drag
politics. 8pm.
backroom at 173
Clara. 227-0553.
Burn This
Kudzu Theatre's
C roduction of
anford Wilson's
funny and sexy
play about a torrid
straight affair
between a rest¬
aurateur and a
dancer. Her gay
roommate
provides amusing
commentary. $7-
10. Thru 2/12. Brainwash
Theatre, 1126 Folsom at 7th.
995-4778.
Chesty Baker
Chet's chanteuse widow
African American Shakespeare
Company Showcase
Showcase of great scenes from
Bill's best. $7. 8pm. Also Sat.
New Conservatory Theatre, 25
Van Ness. 861-4914.
Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Edward Albee's stage
adaptation of Carson McCullers'
Southern gothic tale of passion,
SATURDAY 5
Amnesia
Beth B.'s multimedia installation
and retrospective video
screening, with taped perfor¬
mances by Jack Smith, Lydia
Lunch, Robbie McCauley, John
Lurie. Thru 2/19. New Langton
Arts, 1246 Folsom. 626-5416.
Mardi Gras Beer Bust
Benefit for Maitri AIDS Hospice.
Food, prizes. Costumes
encouraged! $6. 3-7pm. Lone
Star Saloon, 1354 Harrison.
Mardi Gras Jambalaya
Party and show with host
Trauma Flintstone, Miss X and
FRIDAY 4
croons. $7. 11pm. Fridays thru
Feb. Eichelberger's, 2742 17th
at Florida. 863-4177.
Classified
Fred Adler's high-energy one-,
man show about the cut-throat
modern world. $10. Thru 2/12.
Climate
Theatre, 252
9th St. 626-
9196.
Diamano
Coura West
African Dance
Company
West African
dancers,
acrobats and
music in an
energetic folk
P erformance.
art of
Hometowns,
the 1994 Bay
Area Dance
Series. $10-
12. 8pm. Also
Sat. at 3 & 8pm. Laney College
Theatre, 900 Fallon at 9tn,
Oakland. (510) 464-3234.
The Secretaries
New York's Five Lesbian many dragutantes. 10pm.
Brothers perform their insane Lily's, 4 Valencia at Market.
Fences
Egypt Theatre's production
ot August Wilson's play
about several generations
of a black family in the
'50s. $6-8. 8pm. Egypt
Theatre, 5306 Foothill
Blvd. at Fairfax, Oakland.
(510) 436-4877.
Giselle
San Jose Cleveland Ballet's
production of the classic
dance, accompanied by the
San Jose Symphony. $12-
50. 7:30pm. Also
matinees. Thru 2/6. San
Jose Center for the
Performing Arts. (408)
288-2800.
He Plays,
She Sings...
Jerome Kern!
Andrew Moore and Diana
Sheehan perform a musical
story with songs by the
composer of great cabaret
songs. $15. 8pm. Sun. at
2pm. Thru 3/13. New
Conserv-atory Theatre, 25
Van Ness Ave. 861-8972.
Living Room Festival
Eclectic mix of video shorts
by Black artists, including j
Marlon Riggs' Affirmations
and Ayanna Udongo's
Edges. 11pm. KQED Ch. 9.
La Maison Suspendue
Canadian playwright Michel
Tremblay's lyrical play about
three generations in one
Quebecois family, with a few
lueer folk in it. $14-16. 8pm.
jun. at 2pm. Actors Theatre,
533 Sutter. 296-9179.
new comedy about Big Bone,
Oregon, and a lumber mill run
by high-heeled, high-haired
secretaries who binge on
Slimfast and kill lumberjacks.
$10-20. 8pm. Sat. at 5pm.
Sun. at 3pm. Thru 2/19.
Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 16th
at Mission. 861-5079.
The Sum of Us
David Stevens' pleasant story
of a Melbourne soccer-playing
gay son and his coming out to
Thank the Lord
for the Dyketime
Phrancis back with her special
tribute to Neil Diamond, "Hot August
Phranc/' Dig her sideburns as she
croons the tunes of the living legend.
In Interview magazine, Diamond
said he heard about our fave folk
surfer dyke's act and wanted to see
it, so why don't you? Opening for
Neil will be Phranc as Phranc. $13.
Feb. 5 & 6 at 8pm. Great American
Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St. 885-
0750.
Laura Nyro
A solo concert by the acclaimed
vocalist and para-lesbian.
Melanie DeMore opens. $14-
18. 8pm. First Congregational
Church, 27th & Harrison,
Oakland. (510) 835-1445.
Robert Duncan in Word and Image
Readings of the poet by Thom
Gunn, Aaron Snurin, Margy
Sloan, Norma Cole and others,
who will also read their own
work as well. Free. 3pm.
Danforth Lecture Hall,
Aron Art Center, Mills
College, 5000 MacArthur
Blvd., Oakland. (510) 430-
2164.
Seven Lively Sins
Julie Queen, multi-toned
vocalist, sings lusty, lonely
songs of Kurt Weill. $6.
Saturdays thru Feb.
Eichelberger's, 2747 17th
at Florida. 863-4177.
Straight For the Money
Celebration of queer
experience in the sex
industry: Strippers, phone
sex workers, porn stars,
strippers and the like.
Sponsored by Sex Workers
Action Coalition (SWAC).
9pm. Komotion, 2779
16th St.
What To Call Home
An evening with Nina Wise
& Friends, a performance
about the Jewish
experience seen through
modern eyes. Thru 2/27.
Magic Theatre, Fort Mason
Center. 441-8822.
SUNDAY 6
9 l
Si
The Man With Straight Hair
World premiere of George
Birimisa's new play about two
ex-lover roommates in the
Bowery of the '50s. $12.
7:30pm. Sun. at 2pm. Thru
2/13. Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926
16th at Mission. 861-5079.
No Man's Land
Aurora Theatre Company's
production of Harold Pinter's
sinister verbal joust between
two aging poets and their
servants. $12-18. 8pm. Thru
2/20. Berkeley city Club, 2315
durant Ave., Berkeley. (510)
843-4822.
his blue-collar dad. $8-24.
8pm. Sun. at 2 & 7pm. Thru
2/13. Marin Theatre Company,
397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley.
388-5200.
Those Damn Calla Lilies
Artfull Circle Theatre has
concocted another play version
snatched from a film classic,
this time Stage Door. Connie
Champagne stars. $20. 8pm.
Thru 2/27. 626-5455.
20:10 Legacies of Collaboration
Repertory performances to
celebrate the decades of work
by Margaret Jenkins Dance
Company, Paul Dresher
Ensemble and Kronos Quartet.
$16-45. Thru 2/19. Theatre
Artaud, 450 Florida. 621-7797.
Veronica Klaus
Soulful live music. This show
will be recorded for Veronika's
next CD. Also, Bambi and Lu
Read. $5. 10pm. Komotion,
2779 16th St. 861-6423.
Angels in the Castro
Paintings of winged beauties by
T.R. Colletta can be seen in
shops throughout the Castro
area, including A Different
Light, 489 Castro.
Bv Hand and Nature
Chip Gibbons' documentary
about being asymptomatic and
HIV positive for 14 years.
Sundays thru Feb. 10:30pm.
Viacom Ch. 47.
Kenny Fries
Author of The Healing
Notebooks reads from his
work. 7:30pm. A different
Light, 489 Castro. 431-0891.
Scott Siedman
"Love Over Death," an exhibit of
erotic and religious artworks
that resemble ancient murals.
Morphos Gallery, 544 Hayes.
626-1936.
Star Search Karaoke
Asian AIDS Project's Rubber
Club has ongoing singing
contests with cash, prizes and a
little safe sex info in between.
8pm. N'Touch Club, 1548 Polk
St. To register, call 227-0946.
Uncle Vanya
New translation of Anton
Chekov's deceptively simple
and comic play about the lives
of the residents at a remote
country estate. $12-38. 8pm &
2pm. Thru 3/6. Marines
Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter at
Mason. 749-2ACT.
MONDAY 7
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
It's cult movie night! $3.
8:30pm. The Elbo Room,
Valencia near 17th. 552-7788.
Gay Comedy Open Mike
Aspiring comics can call to sign
up by 7pm. $5. 8pm. Josie^s,
16th & Market. 861-7933.
TUESDAY 8
Beauty and the Beast
We know this ice skating
production of the hit Disney
flick is a patriarchal embodi¬
ment of sexism, looksism, or
whatever, and that it cost six
million dollars worth of dancing
spoons and Walt Disney was a
homophobe. Nevertheless, it's
fun for kids of queer parents,
who may also enjoy the cute
skaters. Oakland Coliseum thru
2/14. Cow Palace 2/16-21. San
Jose Arena 2/23-27. (510)
760-BASS.
Gay & Lesbian Folk Dancing
Lessons at 7:30-8pm, dancing
full tilt 8:00-9:30pm. Each
week at Eureka Valley
Community Center. 585-9784.
Jonathan Parker
Exhibit of portraits by the self-
taught Oakland painter. Thru
2/26. Intersection for the Arts
Gallery, 446 Valencia. 626-
2787.
Minnie Pearl Necklace
Fried chicken Tuesdays at
eichelbergers with country
camp band. $5. 2742 17th.
863-4177.
WEDNESDAY 9
Addressing Herself
Group exhibition of works by
women about female sexuality,
fetishism, self-representation
and transformation. Thru 3/5.
The Lab, 1807 Divisadero. 346-
4063. .
Between
Thumb and Forefinger
Barbara DeGenevieve's exhibit
of work exploring sexuality,
gender images and age
differences. Thru 2/19. Eye
Gallery, 1151 Mission. 431-
6911.
Female Trouble
A pre-Valentine soiree with I.C.
Wet, Spanking Violets, DJ
Stephanie Philips. Dyke-arama!
bottom of the Hill. 1233 17th
St. 626-4455.
Lesbian & Gay Film Class
Daniel Mangin shows rare and
popular screen clips and
features with queer themes.
This week: Tea & Sympathy.
$49. Screenings thru June.
6:30pm. Everett Middle School,
17th & Church. Also 2-5pm,
Wed. & Thu., City College,
Cloud Hall, Rm. 247. 239-
THURSDAY 10
Coming Home Hospice Bingo
Play and raise funds for the
hospice. $12 buy-ins. 7pm. 100
Diamond St. 552-7454.
Hugh Shurley
Exhibit of mixed media collages,
modern in construction, but
classic in style. Thru 2/12.
John Pence Gallery, 750 Post
St. 441-1138.
New World (Dis)Order
Exhibit of works by 13
California women artists
exploring the changing nature of
identity. Thru 4/4. Center for
the Arts Gallery, 701 mission at
3rd. 978-ARTS.
A Taste of Somewhere Else
Medea Project's theatre work
based on the Greek Sisyphus
myth, performed by recovering
women inmates. $10-1/.
7:30pm. Thru 2/19. Center for
the Arts, 700 Howard. 978-
ARTS.
Urban Images
Photography by Native
Americans and Hawaiians.
Thru 3/5. American Indian
Contemporary Arts, Monadnock
Bldg. 685 Market. 495-7600.
Weegee
Photo exhibit of work by the
artist who documented New
York's grisly murders, glorious
drag queens and gritty
inhabitants. Vision Gallery,
1155 Mission. 621-2107.
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Friday February 4, get a double dose of Marlon Riggs. ATA Gallery will show Riggs' Color
Adjustment, a 90-minute critique of television myths about Black America, from Amos 'n'
Andy and Julia to Good Times and The Cosby Show. $5. 8:30pm, ATA Gallery, 992
Valencia 824-3890. Then pop home for Creative Mind: Marlon Riggs in which the award¬
winning maker of Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied and Color Adjustment is the subject of a
two-part interview documentary. 10:30pm. Part 2 airs Feb. 11, 10:30pm. KQED, Channel 9.
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SF's New Goddess of Leather:
Diana Hardick
Diana Hardick is the 8th Ms. Leather of San Francisco. An
Aries, biker member of Hell's Belles and named for the God¬
dess of the Hunt, she won the title last Saturday night, Jan.
29 at Pleasuredome. (Photo: Mr. Marcus)
I t’s ironic that the new
Ms. Leather of San
Francisco was named
after a mythical god¬
dess. It’s doubtful that any
other female leather-title hold¬
er has a magnificent statue
erected in honor of her name¬
sake in Mexico City, a tribute
to Diana, Goddess of the
Hunt.
In her fantasy before a
huge turnout (actually more
men than women!) last Satur¬
day at Pleasuredome, the 36-
year-old leather Hardick (yes,
that’s really her name), fan¬
tasized that she was a
huntress encountering a wild
cat (Tina Carroll), who even¬
tually captured our heroine
and caged her, shredded and
bloodied, before a wildly
cheering audience.
Diana Hardick was the
only contestant who faced the
judges, but that didn’t mean
she was guaranteed to win
the coveted title. She appar¬
ently pleased the judges in
the interview. Her demeanor
onstage was forceful, but not
pushy. Her speech was gen¬
uine and her apparent 11 years
of experience hardly makes
her a newcomer to leather-
dom. She was well received
by the audience and garnered
a standing ovation when
Queen Cougar sashed her as
the new Ms. San Francisco
Leather. Her shiny boots
couldn’t match the sparkle in
her eyes.
A native of Montana and a
single triple Aries, our newest
title-holder spent a lot of time
in New Hampshire. She’s a
biker (Harley Davidson!) and
her club, Hells Belles, spon¬
sored her for this competi¬
tion. She’s employed as a pro¬
duction facilities manager and
has no problem expressing
enthusiasm. She has a delight¬
ful personality! The communi¬
ty looks forward to Diana’s
year with the title.
The whole production last
Saturday night was flawless.
With Queen Cougar’s wild-in-
the-jungle fantasy opening
number and Jo Leroux as the
great white hunter, this was
camp as only La Cougar can
dish it out. Queen’s farewell
speech was upbeat. A nostal¬
gic look at her appearances
(Continued on next page)
The moment of truth for Diana Hardick as outgoing Ms. SF Leather Queen Cougar "sashes”
her successor to a standing ovation by the big crowd last Saturday night, Jan. 29. Thanks, Queen
Cougar, for a great year. (Photo: Mr. Marcus)
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 48
Mr. Marcus
Lee Tucker won the Feb. 1995 spot on the Eagle's Bare Chest
Calendar last Thursday, Jan. 20. He is also on the 1994 calen¬
dar. They'll be selecting Mr. March on Thursday, Feb. 3.
(Photo: Mr. Marcus)
(Continued from previous page)
around the country and her
continuing commitment to
her brothers and sisters,
added to the evening’s plea¬
sures. A drag number by “En-
route,” the singing group, and
Lenny Broberg and Skeeter
Wildman emceeing added to
the fun. A great evening! I’m
sorry you weren’t there. Di¬
ana Hardick will represent
our city in the International
Ms. Leather competition in
March. And to Audrey Joseph
and Jamie Santos (happy
birthday, darrrrling!), and
their crew, congratulations on
another sterling production!
★ ★ ★
Next up is Mr. San Fran¬
cisco Leather on Saturday
night, April 16. From where
I’m standing it looks like we’ll
have at least a half-dozen or
more contestants. If any of
you are aspiring to the title —
and the commitment(s) that
go with it — there are prelim¬
inary competitions. First out,
Mr. Watering Hole Leather
takes place on Friday, Febru¬
ary 12th. The winner gets
$300 and a chance to repre¬
sent that bar in the biggie in
April. Richard Faust, who did
a hell of a job with the title,
will step aside that night.
On Wednesday, March 2,
Mr. SF Leather, Greg Byfield,
will pass on his Mr. Jackham¬
mer Leather title in a compe¬
tition at that bar. Only six
days later, Tuesday, March 8,
Mr. Headquarters Leather
will be picked to succeed Jeff
Matthews.
Tony Amato will pass his
sash to the new Mr. Edge
Leather on Friday, March 18
and the last one I have on the
list is the Mr. San Francisco
Eagle Leather on Thursday,
March 24. Andy Rose will
step aside for his successor
that night. No word on
whether Mr. Pit Leather at
Cocktails will run a contest
this year or the Lone Star Sa¬
loon. Prizes for the winners
in all of the above will be an¬
nounced as soon as I get the
press releases. Now’s the time
to start thinking about enter¬
ing! Applications for the com¬
petitions at all of the above
bars should be available even
as you read this.
Diana Hardick gives her
speech before the audience
and judges at the Ms. SF
Leather Contest last Satur¬
day night, Jan. 29.
(Photo: Mr. Marcus)
The Dishcovery Channel
Nothing but raves about
the grand opening party of
The Lure in New York City
last Saturday night, January
29th. Wally Wallace (of Mine-
shaft fame) has scored big
with this one, so next time
you’re in the Big Apple, drop
in. Remember, there is a
mandatory dress code at The
Lure (Leather, Uniforms,
Rubber, Etc.) on weekends
and cologne is always forbid¬
den!
And speaking of bars, a
new owner has taken over
what used to be Griffs Bar
(4216 Melrose at Vermont) in
Los Angeles. Since they as¬
sumed control of the bar the
day before the big earth¬
quake, it’s only appropriate
that they decided to call it
The Faultline. At present, it’s
undergoing extensive renova¬
tion, but I’ll let you know
when the Faultline will be
open for leathery business!
(Continued on next page)
Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather, Richard Benoit, during the jock strap
competition at Tracks in Washington, D.C. the weekend of Jan.
14-17. (Photo: Mr. Marcus)
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Affairs to Remember
Thursday, Feb. 3: Looking
for Mr. March on the 1994 Bare
Chest Calendar at the Eagle
tonight at 2200. Win $100 and
help out the AIDS Emergency
Fund.
Friday, Feb. 4: Grant
Dupont celebrates his ??th birth¬
day tonight with a big party at
the SF-Eagle beginning at 2000.
With an $8 beer/soda bust, 50/50
raffle, surprises, and show — all
to benefit the AIDS Emergency
Fund. See you there?
Saturday, Feb. 5: The Cal
Eagles MC celebrates its 10th an¬
niversary on the SF-Eagle patio
this evening from 1800-2100. By
invitation or club overlay. Meet
their new officers and partake of
this landmark occasion. Congrat¬
ulations, Eagles, and best wishes
for continued success.
Vern Stewart and Bill Gooch
step aside as the King and Prince
of Leather at the Krewe de Cuir
Mardi Gras coronation tonight at
the Swedish American Club.
Twelve leather “chevaliers” will
bite into the Mardi Gras cake to
see who will reign during the
next year, beginning at 2000. You
must wear a mask!
Benefit beer/soda bust at the
Lone Star Saloon from 1500-1900
for the Maitri Hospice. Costumes
encouraged for the $6 beer/soda
bust, raffle, food and surprises. Jo
Carol will perform, so it should
be hot! With Mark Wood as the
new manager, look for some in¬
novative fun at the Lone Star.
Sunday, Feb. 6: The Stop
AIDS Project and Lenny
Broberg’s softball team host the
Eagle’s beer/soda bust today
from 1500-1800, for $8, with food.
The door prizes are the 365
Dicks Calendars. No show, no
speeches — only raffle prizes,
beer, food and cruising!
If you’re in Seattle, the only
place to be is the Mr. Seattle
Leather Contest at Neighbor’s
Bar this evening around 1900.
The winner will compete at Inti.
Mr. Leather in Chicago next
May.
Wednesday, Feb. 9: The
1995 Great Buns calendar con¬
tests begin tonight, and they’re
looking for Mr. January begin¬
ning at 2130 hours. Win cash,
fame, fortune and more. Applica¬
tions available now.
Week Feb. 11-20: In Mel¬
bourne, Australia? Melbourne’s
Leather Pride Week continues
for nine days. Check out the
Laird for all the fun things going
on, and say hi to the Jackaroos
and the Melbourne Leather Men!
Saturday, Feb. 12: The
Sacramento Leather Association
presents its Mr. Sacramento Val¬
ley Leather contest as John Yant
passes on the sash tonight. It’s at
The Sierra Inn; tickets are $12
advance/$15 door. Call (916) 863-
3398 for more details.
King and Queen of the Hop
will be selected at the Pilsner Inn
at its 12th annual sock hop, with
dancing and hula hoop contests
in the ’50s style. Beginning at
2000 and hosted by Tom “Sue
Ellen” Begano. Always a fun
time, this event was started by
former Mr. SF Leather, the late
Jim Cvitanich.
Mr. Watering Hole Leather
contest at the Watering Hole at
2100. Winner gets $300 cash and
maybe a sash. Represent the
Hole at the Mr. San Francisco
Leather contest in April.
Dyke Daddy Jo Leroux pre¬
sents a St. Valentine’s Day Mas¬
sacre dance in The Pit at Cock¬
tails tonight beginning at 2000.
Only $5 at the door and a 50/50
raffle to benefit Lyon-Martin
Women’s HIV unit.
Sunday, Feb. 13: Forum of
San Francisco hosts the
beer/soda bust at the SF-Eagle,
1500-1800, $8, food, cruising ga¬
lore. Don’t miss it!
A day of music and laughter
for Brownie Mary at The Bear
from 1300-2100, with a beer/soda
bust from 1600-2100 for $6. Dona¬
tions of flour, sugar, cocoa or oth¬
er baking goods. Also, lots of en¬
tertainment! ▼
(Continued from previous page)
If you’re planning ahead,
NLA:San Diego is gearing up
for their big Leatherfest VI
weekend (March 11-13). This
chapter is one of the most
progressive entities of the
NLA and one of the most re¬
spected. A whole series of
workshops and lectures will
take place alone with an
awards banquet, day bike
run, and other fun activities.
The host hotel is the Raddi-
son Mission Valley and you
can call NLA San Diego (800)
598-1859 for details, prices
and other information. More
on this one later.
Mr. San Diego Leather,
Ed Morgan passes on his
sash the weekend of Febru¬
ary 25-27. Meet and greet con¬
testants and judges on Friday,
and go to the contest on Sat¬
urday at 2200. Call (619) 294-
9337 for details. Lenny
Broberg will emcee. It
promises to be a fun week¬
end. ▼
The suspension demo was one of the highlights of the show at Mid-Atlantic Mr. Leather by Len
Griffith and his crew. It brought down the house. (Photo: Mr. Marcus)
Mr. Spike New York, Andy Borden, 2nd runner-up in the Mr.
Mid-Atlantic Leather contest, was a crowd favorite in the jock
competition. (Photo: Mr. Marcus)
Books
Truth
(Continued from page 39)
strating, for example, the cu¬
rious and corrupt way the use
of drugs has been criminal¬
ized over the last 70 years.
These histories are at once
the vice and virtue of his
book. They fatten it beyond
forgiveness, it’s true, but they
also make fascinating reading,
and more than justify the ex¬
pense (if not the heft) of the
book.
If the arguments against
consensual crime are as ab¬
surd as McWilliams shows
they are, then how did we
land ourselves in such a
mess? The answer is apparent
to any queer who’s ever had
to argue for her or his natural
rights: “Almost all consensual
crimes find the basis of their
restrictions and prohibitions
in religion.” This disturbing
fact prompts McWilliams to
include an additional 200
pages on “Consensual Crimes
and the Bible.” With the assis¬
tance of some marvelous com¬
puter software (Biblesoft,
QuickVerse, Bible Library),
McWilliams illuminates why
the Bible is “the book quoted
most often to relieve us of our
personal freedoms.” For those
of us who have endured the
Bible-mania of the Christian
right (and who hasn’t?), this
deconstructive book-within-
the book is worth the bulk of
the whole.
Facts on file
As a bonus, McWilliams
supplies a handy state-by-state
chart of which consensual
crimes are illegal where. Fun
facts: in New Mexico the age
of consent is 13; Vermont has
the least laws against consen¬
sual crimes; Virginia and Ida¬
ho have the most. Prostitu¬
tion is the only consensual
crime illegal everywhere.
Finally, in a fit of desktop
publishing precocity,
McWilliams has garnished
each page of the book with its
own boxed bon mot, citing
everyone from Jerry Falwell
to Divine. The sentiment of
his own book is best ex¬
pressed in the words of a cer¬
tain Laurence J. Peter: “I
hate people who are intoler¬
ant.” Exactly. ▼
Pornucopia
Clothes Make the Man
by Tom Bacchus
O ur latest batch of
debauchery in¬
cludes two gems
worthy of onanistic
interest. Lords of Leather is
a deftly made, amusing treat.
Rob Cryston ogles guest Jon
Vincent, who’s dropped by to
visit Cryston’s busty female
roommate. Cryston soon hops
into fantasy land, sporting
choke collar and studded har¬
ness, as does Vincent, the
growling, scenery-chewing
balls-erina of this scene.
Oddly, the duo does it in a
fruity Laura Ashley four-
poster bed, an ironic femme
twist. Vincent sure can spew
dirty talk, but his jizz shots
rarely measure up to his ver¬
bal cantos. Fortunately, slut-
pig Cryston delivers as usual,
being the best little bottom in
the world. Oh, that snarl. It
ought to be bottled!
Other scenes take place in
a leather bar we’d like to vis¬
it, where blowjobs by the
pool table and a four-way on
the go-go stage are part of an
Rassle
Book Brief
Affirmation, Not Despair
Pat Califia’s Sensuous Magic is a friendly, non-threatening,
helpful guide and resource for “adventurous couples” who are
interested in expanding the erotic boundaries of their sexual re¬
lationship. The book provides a good grounding for the couple
new to those activities included under the general term of S/M,
which can include role-playing (dominant/submissive), costume
fetish, restraint, erotic (pleasurable) pain, all of which may or
may not include genital activity.
This is a practical, sensitive introduction to the basics, the lan¬
guage of erotic play and essential materials. Importantly, Califia
emphasizes the primacy of good communication and negotiation
between participants, as these elements foster the trust and safe¬
ty needed to achieve mutual consent. Califia emphasizes that
consensual erotic activity is “not about rape, abuse or degrada¬
tion.” The purpose of doing this is, she writes, “to give you re¬
lease, not resentment; affirmation, not despair.”
Sensuous Magic is punctuated with fictional examples that
provide inspiration for possible scenes, some new ways to ap¬
proach “vanilla” sex, and exercises to prompt discussion of vari¬
ations of play potential. Califia’s checklist helps determine both
attractions and aversions regarding specific activities. The abil¬
ity to have fun is important, and Califia’s signature wit under¬
scores the fact that the very notion of “play” is integral to S/M
activity. Her use of the term “sensual magic” (the phrase “sen¬
suous magic” was coined by the late Cynthia Slater, founder of
the Society of Janus) is two-fold: it “acknowledges the ritualistic
nature” of many fantasies and “the ecstatic or transcendental
states that some people enter as a result of S/M play.” Califia
also intends to “counter some of the ugly edge of the popular
press which uses terms like ‘sadist’ and ‘masochist’ to describe
only crazy, sad and violent people.” She captures the power of
what it means to enter forbidden terrain, and to do so safely
with someone else, and to explore the healing potential, spiritual
aspects and the depth of S/M. ▼
—Noreen C. Barnes
evening’s entertainment.
Kinky variations include a
black man giving then getting
head and a boot polish by a
muscle-bound blond who lat¬
er impales himself on a huge
dildo in the toilet.
The tape’s best scene is
when Cryston, wandering
through this dreamlike tav¬
ern, finds a sexy pissoir and
attaches his ass to now
pumped-up Jared Clark, who
fucks him while another
studlet tickles his tonsils.
Cryston’s finale, which shows
him coming then jacking off
his oral partner while getting
fucked, is worth watching
again and again. Ooh, that
snarl!
Lords of Leather
Stallion Video
Sex Sans Singlets
Anyone who’s ever won¬
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on a gay team should know
that the reality is more athlet¬
ic than sexual. Yet the myth
of sexual high jinks in singlets
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Teamboys Rob Cryston
and Randy Storm get butt in¬
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coach Jon Vincent. He fingers
their holes on his desk, then
plows them both. The ensu¬
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E05
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THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE
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431-9608
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a passionate touch for
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Tissue Massage, Nurturing and Sensual.
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Van Ness + Broadway.
^err^MT567^539^
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Simple Relaxation
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821-2985
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ON A TABLE IN/OUT
$40 (510) 234-4880
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Johnny 567-2952
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E05
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• 1 1/2 hrs-$45/$60*
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Harry (707) 824-8040 eob
Professional masseur (certified ’85) gives
Swedish-Esalen massage with a firm and
gentle touch. ‘I love to massage and I
have the touch.* $301 1/4hr. t $361 1/2
hr,, $48 2 hrs. In Castro, easy parking.
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Certified Massage Therapist
Member — AMTA
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with a 90 minute massage in a
warm, comfortable environment
Gift Certificates Available
Call 553-4122
San Jose — Swedish Massage
$ 30/hr. $45/1 Vi Hr. In-calls
Anthony (408) 288-6169-CMT
STUDENTS!
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mind and body.
John S. Haas, Swedish Esalen
mm rxi Accu pressure
$45.00 1 Hr.
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San Mateo
Excellent full body
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EAST BAY
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"You deserve to be treated this special."
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(415) 864-2430
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E. BAY-LAKE MERRITT
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15 St. & Dolores
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Non Sexual
864-1320
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Sensitive C.M.T.
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- $ 40/in -
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566-4746
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BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 53
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sensitive
touch
Jim
864-2653
ORTHOPEDIC MASSAGE
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11 695-7808
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effective for stiff neck and
shoulders, back pain, spor¬
ting injuries, computer
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training. Please call for
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1-707-528-7454 eob
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E06
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$40/60 Paco 487-9575
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soothing massage by a caring &
sensitive professional in a warm &
cozy environment.
ERIK GEORGE, cmt
Gift Certificates Available.
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552-1183 IQ AM - 1QPM
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will bring you bliss.
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Bob 824-6713
certified, experienced
Quality
Bodywork
Friendly,
Professional
Nurturing,
Strong and
Healing
Castro in or out
Alan Moore
708-6052
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techniques for total tension relief.
AFTERNOONS & EVENINGS
6 • 4 ’ ASIAN 175#
CHUCK 221-3477 certified
INDULGE YOURSELF
Enjoy the nurturing magic of a soothing deep
tissue Swedish-Esalen massage in a warm and
comfortable environment. Castro location. Gift
Certificates available. Sliding scale for people
living with HIV.
MARK CARM0DY
(415) 861-5441_Certified
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mind and spirit.
415 . 387.9410
SLIDING SCALE FOR PWAS
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WARM H EART
“A masseur in the finest tradition
of ecstatic bodywork.”
-Joseph Kramer, Director, Body Electric School
Swedish/Esalen, Acupressure, Rebirthing.
HIV+ encouraged. Castro location.
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BILL WEINTRAUB, CMT 861-7689
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TERRY 824.6455
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by 24 y/o Handsome
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$20/30 min., $30/1 Hour,
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(415) 386-0152
John
IT’S HARD
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want a professonal bodyworker.
567-6015, CMT
Attractive, Smooth
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TOM
ADVENTURESOME
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friendly. Guys over 30 preferred.
Sensual massage in the buff.
$45in/$60out 24 hrs.
563-1302
MATTHEW SIMMONS
Body Electric School Instructor. Certifiied
massage therapist. 4 years experience.
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Mike 931-0149 24 hrs.
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648-1919
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474-8027
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Voice Mail: 980-5147
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by
PRO TRAINER/
BODYBUILDER
John 989-5317
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JEFF GIBSON,
JP 626-7095
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pains, or simply to feel great, I can
help. Swedish • Deep Tissue • Sports-
massage • THgger Point • Cross Fiber
• PNF Stretching • and more!
The
BODYMECHANIC
THERAPEUTIC
MASSAGE
AND
FITNESS TRAINING
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Swedish/Deep Tissue
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Hotels Out - $60.00
CALL J.J.
415-771-4873
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BY
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346-6334
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EROTIC MASSAGE
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E06
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ment
E06
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married, welcome. 9a.m.-9p.m.
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Shiatsu
Aromatherapy
★ Sensitive
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431-5758
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E10
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E07
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647-0644
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clean-cut and discreet.
864-5566
BAY AREA REPORTER FEBRUARY 3, 1994 PAGE 55
MODELS & ESCORTS
MASSAGE
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Greg 252*0389 In/Out 24 HRS.
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DEEP MASSAGE
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relaxing full-body erotic
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most Hotels. In/Out. Starts
at $50.
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E08
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Nude Erotic Massage eos
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$40, 10 yrs. Exp./CMT, Table.
The Best-Robbi 543-3058 eos
Only One Question
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Jim de Masseur 864-2430
E06
26, Hnsm, Friendly, Boy Nx Door
NUDE EROTIC
Nathan. Apt. 1-6. 552-3740eos
ASIAN XTRA-C
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MAN TO MAN
1 Hour Full Body Rub $25
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824-6590
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38 y/o exudes raw
masculinity. Available
24 hrs. to fulfill any
scene —role playing, B/D, S/M,
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2nd Guy Available 24 Hrs. eos
Submit To Helmut, German
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All Safe, Sane and Legal!
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E05
6', 175, In/Out
(510) 658-2437
LIFE EXTENSION
California Certified
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6', 195 lbs., great tan body
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in nude; Japan Center
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292-2373
PHYSICAL
ATTRACTION
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blond / blue, 6', 185.
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EOS
BUBBLE BUTT
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560-2478
Hot Massage In The Buff
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29 y/o, 5'10, 170#, Drk Bid, Bl
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E05
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E05
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E05
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E05
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E05
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E05
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415 - 267-5988
93 1 -SEXY
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Uniforms Available
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slim, dancer's build
smooth, hairless skin
cupid 621*5262
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E05
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E05
415-826-9478
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succulent and tender
handsome / intimate
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pager 415/954-3766
Roger of SF
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exchange, or crude caricatures of
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I take my time.
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303-9164 $100
DO YOU WANNA
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f QUALIT Y AND CHMNTlTm\
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560-9255 E05
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YNG HAWAIIAN
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E05
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776-3805
SPANKING
BONADGE
FF-TT
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HOT DAD
MARK
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NEW MUSCLE, 23 YRS OLD
HANDSOME, MASCULINE
PAGER #998-7555 CHRIS eos
DARK, SENSUAL, YOUNG
EXOTIC
YVAIN 837-7265 PGR. e°s
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2/10-3/10, Very Handsome,
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Looking for Slaves
You Will Call Me Sir!
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E05
Hot Bronzed Stud
More than a hdsm face...
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pg. 415-207-2516
6'4" 250 LBS
NORDIC BLONDE
STUD
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STRICTLY TOP
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FANTASIES, POSING
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MOST SCENES
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MODELS & ESCORTS
STUD MUFFIN
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698-8111. Boy Toy, Lots of
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E05
BONDAGE MASTER
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25 y/o, 6'4", 180#
HOT BOTTOM
510-938-9160 907-4473 Rich
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Flexible
Discreet
Can Travel
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